Secularization for and against
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- SECULARIZATION
- Evidence FOR secularization.
- declining attendance of churches.
- Brierley states that the decline in church goers makes the future of organised church institutions worrying.
- Davies states that the UK isn't guided by collective moral codes and community emphasis once promoted by the church
- this individualism began at the beginning of the 20th century as before this the family was very committed to religion and communities were religion oriented.
- LINK THIS TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT EARLY 18TH CENTURY
- this individualism began at the beginning of the 20th century as before this the family was very committed to religion and communities were religion oriented.
- Terry Sanderson said the church seemed to be loosing its 'core business' which is to baptize, marry and bury committed church go'ers
- Byran Wilson, Bruce and Wallis state that secularization is a development rooted in modernity and there is three key processes; rationalization, disengagement and religious pluralism.
- Desacrilization is the idea that the sacred has little or no meaning in the western contemporary society.
- the disengagement or separation from the church from wider society, the church is not involved in important areas of social life, such as politics.
- Evidence AGAINST secularization
- rise in evangelical churches
- increased attendance of new religious movements
- Davie Believing without Belonging, people still do believe in church but they aren't actively going to church, this doesn't mean they don't believe in God and are secularized
- rise in mosques, new mosques are being built.
- the growth of immigrants populations is causing an increase in religiosity in regions of the UK such as Islam and Hinduism
- Fundamentalist groups have stronger stricter traditions
- the importance of religion hasn't declined but its form of expression may have changed (this links to NRM and NAM)
- Evidence FOR secularization.
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