Explanations of secularisation

EXPLANATIONS OF SECULARISATION

Max weber- rationalisation - the process by which rational ways of thinking and acting come to replace religious ones.

Disenchantment- protestantism saw god as transcendant (out of this world) - he does not intervene with the world, but left it to run itself- events were no longer to be explained as the work of unpredictable supernatural beings but as the predictable workings of natural forces. All that was needed to understand them was rationality- the power of reason- using reason and science, humans could discover the laws of nature, understand and predict how the world works and control it through technology- there was no…