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6. According to Bruce, which of these is a weakness of the New Age?

  • Structural weakness
  • Weak commitment
  • All of these answers
  • Socialisation of the next generation
  • The problem of scale

7. Who found that if a country spends more on welfare, they are likely to be less religious?

  • Voas and Crockett
  • Norris and Inglehart
  • Lundegaarde
  • Stark and Bainbridge

8. How has religion become a spiritual health service?

  • People only use religion when they need to
  • People now pay for religion
  • Religion heals people
  • All doctors are now spiritual

9. Who talks about believing without belonging?

  • Hervieu-Leger
  • Lyon
  • Davie
  • Wilson

10. Which of these isn't a criticism of religious market theory?

  • They all are
  • Bruce rejects the view that diversity and competition increase the demand for religion
  • Stark and Bainbrige misrepresent secularisation theory
  • It assumes people are 'naturally' religious

11. What has caused religious ideas to become disembedded?

  • Modern society
  • Spiritual shopping
  • Globalisation
  • Religious consumerism

12. Who argues that Pilgrims and Converts are new religious types?

  • Stark and Bainbridge
  • Lyon
  • Hervieu-Leger
  • Voas and Crockett
  • Bruce
  • Wilson

13. What is religion online?

  • A non-hierarchal organisation
  • A form of top down communication where religious organisations use the internet to address members and potential converts
  • A form of 'cyber-religion'
  • Virtual religion

14. What is cultural amnesia?

  • Religion is no longer handed down from generation to generation, children now believe what they want to
  • People forgetting their culture
  • A version of online religion
  • A reason for the increase in believeing without belonging