Religion, renewal and choice

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  • Created on: 14-06-17 14:09
Believing without belonging
Davie - Religion is not changing into a more privatised form. Church attendance is choice rather than obligation. People still use church for weddings and baptisms. Davie rejects secularisation theory for assuming similar effects of modernisation.
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Spiritual shopping
Hervieu Leger - cultural amnesia - loss of collective memory, losing traditional religion. Greater equality has undermined traditional church's power. Religion is individualised - we develop our own beliefs.
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Two new religious types - Pilgrims and Converts
Hervieu Leger - Pilgrims - path to self discovery. Converts - Sense of belonging re-creating sense of community.
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Jesus in Disneyland
Lyon - Postmodern society has been changing the nature of religion by globalisation, media and consumerism. Due to globalisation there's an increase movement of religious ideas. Religious consumerism - we construct our identities by what we consume.
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Religious market
Stark and Bainbridge - Criticise secularisation theory for its distorted view of the past and future. Religious market theory - people are religious because it meets their needs and they make rational choice on religious options. Life after death.
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American vs Europe
Demand for religion increases when there is a choice so consumers can find what they need. In USA religion is strong because healthy market exists where it grows/declines according to consumer demands. EU religious monopoly, lack of choice -decline.
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Existential security
Feeling security is secure enough to it can be taken for granted. Norris and Inglehart - Reject religious market theory because it only applied to USA.
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USA vs. EU
Western Europe is becoming secular because these societies are equal and secure with welfare states which reduce insecurity among the poor. USA is unequal with high levels of poverty and weak welfare system.
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Hervieu Leger - cultural amnesia - loss of collective memory, losing traditional religion. Greater equality has undermined traditional church's power. Religion is individualised - we develop our own beliefs.

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Spiritual shopping

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Hervieu Leger - Pilgrims - path to self discovery. Converts - Sense of belonging re-creating sense of community.

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Lyon - Postmodern society has been changing the nature of religion by globalisation, media and consumerism. Due to globalisation there's an increase movement of religious ideas. Religious consumerism - we construct our identities by what we consume.

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Stark and Bainbridge - Criticise secularisation theory for its distorted view of the past and future. Religious market theory - people are religious because it meets their needs and they make rational choice on religious options. Life after death.

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