Agrees with Davies theory of believing without belonging.Traditional religion is letting a variety of new religions take place.He says the postmodernist society is changing due to globalisation,growth of consumerism, importance of media/communication
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Relocation of religion
Globalisation gives us access to different regions and religions. Some ideas are now disembedded due to the media, believers take to the internet to express their faith.Lyons example 'harvest day in Disneyland'. Orignal meanings get detached (media)
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Religious Consumerism
Postmodernism agrees with this sayin we construct our own identities.Hervieu-Leger says that we act as spirtual shoppers within religion to meet our individual needs. Lyon says the sphere of consumption is what religion has changed into
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Religious Consumerism
.Meaning religion hasn't been abandoned and that people are instead 'religious consumers' choosing the elemenets of religion they find useful. An effect of this is loss of faith in 'meta-narratives'. This includes traditional religions being weakened
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Religious Consumerism
This means that dominant religious organisations/traditions lose their authority which causes them to decline.
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Re-enchantment of the world
Lyon criticies the secularisation theory, saying that the last 3/4 decades were actually 're-enchantment'. This is the growth of unconventional beliefs, practices and spiritually.
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Criticisms
Research shows that people chooses to view programmes which confirm their existing beliefs and it is unlikely that the religious media will attract many new converts. The idea of an electronic church is not based on extensive evidence.
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Criticisms
Bruce argues that consumerist religion that Lyon describes as 'weak religion' is actually evidence of secularisation and not the vitality of religion.
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Card 2
Front
Globalisation gives us access to different regions and religions. Some ideas are now disembedded due to the media, believers take to the internet to express their faith.Lyons example 'harvest day in Disneyland'. Orignal meanings get detached (media)
Back
Relocation of religion
Card 3
Front
Postmodernism agrees with this sayin we construct our own identities.Hervieu-Leger says that we act as spirtual shoppers within religion to meet our individual needs. Lyon says the sphere of consumption is what religion has changed into
Back
Card 4
Front
.Meaning religion hasn't been abandoned and that people are instead 'religious consumers' choosing the elemenets of religion they find useful. An effect of this is loss of faith in 'meta-narratives'. This includes traditional religions being weakened
Back
Card 5
Front
This means that dominant religious organisations/traditions lose their authority which causes them to decline.
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