rationalisation
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- Weber (1905): Rationalisation
- what is it?
- The process by which religious ways of thinking and acting are replaced with rational ones
- why has this happened?
- Western society has undergone a process of rationalisation in the last few centuries
- what does Weber think started this process in the West?
- The Protestant Reformation
- what did the PR begin?
- The 'disenchantment' of the world
- what did the PR begin?
- The Protestant Reformation
- what does Weber think started this process in the West?
- Western society has undergone a process of rationalisation in the last few centuries
- why has this happened?
- The process by which religious ways of thinking and acting are replaced with rational ones
- disenchantment
- what worldview dominated Europe during the middle ages?
- A medieval Catholic worldview that saw the world as an 'enchanted garden'
- what worldview did the PR bring?
- They began to see God as transcendent
- God had created the world but did not intervene in it
- what is the effect of the shift in world view ?
- events were now explained by the predictable workings of natural forces
- what was needed to understand the world ?
- rationality. paired with science humans could understand and predict the way it works
- what was needed to understand the world ?
- events were now explained by the predictable workings of natural forces
- They began to see God as transcendent
- how did the worldview explain events?
- spiritual beings through their supernatural powers and miraculous interventions
- what worldview did the PR bring?
- A medieval Catholic worldview that saw the world as an 'enchanted garden'
- what worldview dominated Europe during the middle ages?
- what does Bruce (2011) argue?
- the growth of a technological worldview has replaced religious explanations of events
- what has the worldview done ?
- left little room for religious explanations in everyday life which only survives in areas that technology is least effective e.g. praying to be healed from an incurable diseases
- what has the worldview done ?
- scientific knowledge has not made people into atheists but the worldview it encourages results in people take religion less seriously
- the growth of a technological worldview has replaced religious explanations of events
- what is it?
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