Post Modernity and Religion
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- Post Modernity and Religion
- Believing without belonging
- Davie (2007)
- Religion is not declining, taking a more privatised form.
- Church attendance is a matter of personal choice
- Spiritual Shopping
- Leger (2006)
- Children were once taught religion but now lost their religion
- Cultural amnesia
- Religion now links to individual consumerism, people have a choice
- Consumers have become spiritual shoppers
- Examples of individual journeys; Pilgrims and Converts
- Religion no longer provides collective identity
- Jesus in Disneyland
- Lyon (2000)
- Traditional religion is giving way to new varieties
- Shift into post modern society
- Media plays central role in post modern society
- Media gives global access to religious ideas and changes the meanings of local symbols
- Religious Market Theory
- Stark and Bainbridge
- Golden Age of religion didn't exist
- Religion meets human needs therefore demand remains constant
- Religion provides compensator's by promising the supernatural
- Cycle of religious decline, religions grow while others decline
- America vs. Europe
- Where there is religious monopoly religion declines
- Without competition Churches have no incentive to give people what they need
- Religion thrives in USA, the Constitution guarantees freedom and separation of religion and state
- Encouraged the growth of a healthy religious market
- Main factor in influencing religious participation is supply
- Stark and Bainbridge
- Existential Security Theory
- Norris and Inglehart (2004)
- Reasons for variations in religiousity between societies due to existential security
- Western socities have increasing secularisation because they are the most equal and secure
- "The feeling that survival is secure enough that it can be taken for granted"
- Religion meets a need for security, highly secure socities have less religion
- This theory explains why third world countries remain religious
- Global population growth undermines the trend towards secularisation
- Believing without belonging
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