Unit 3: Criticisms of the Secularisation Theory (Summary)

- Religion is not declining but simply changing its form.

- The theory = one sided > It focues on decline and irgnored religion revivals + the growth of new religions.

- Evidence of fall in church attendance ignores people who believe but don't go to church.

- Religion may have declined in Europe but not in America or globally, so secularisation is not universal.

- The past was not a 'golden age' of faith…