Secularisation 1
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- secularisation
- Secularisation in Britain
- Religious Affiliation has also had a major decline
- Religious affiliation is a persons membership or identification with a religion
- the BSA = between 1983 and 2014, the percentage of adults who identified as religious declined by a third
- the number of Anglicans between 1983 and 2014 near enough halved.
- Power and significance of religious organisations have decreased
- As the state took over what the church once had such as education
- A BBC survey = in 2005 over half of secondary schools were not participating in collective worship
- the clergy are also becoming an ageing workforce as there is a lack of replacements from the younger gen
- Significant decline in church attendance in the last 70 years
- Penman has found an increase in bogus baptisms
- it has fallen from 40% in 1851 to between 10-15% in the 1960s
- Religious Affiliation has also had a major decline
- Rationalisation
- WEBER suggested that new rational ways of thinking are replacing religious ones
- The protestant reformation undermined religious worldview of the middle age which has replaced it with a more scientific worldview
- medieval catholic worldview saw the world as an enchanted/magical garden.
- Disenchantment
- protestant reformation brought a new worldview which saw god as existing above the outside world
- the world has been disenchanted and left to run according to the laws of nature
- from WEBER
- A Technological Worldview
- BRUCE argues that this has replaced religious explanations on WHY things have happened.
- religious world views only survives in areas where technology is least effective
- Structural Differentiation
- from Parsons
- process that occurs with industrialisation
- religion has become smaller and a more specialised institution
- Social and Cultural diversity
- pre industrial society brings about the decline of a community and in turn, religion.
- when religion lost stable communities, it lost its strength over its individuals
- WHAT IS IT ?
- the process through which religion declines over time
- Secularisation in Britain
- Significant decline in church attendance in the last 70 years
- Penman has found an increase in bogus baptisms
- it has fallen from 40% in 1851 to between 10-15% in the 1960s
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