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6. What does Bruce mean by saying religion has been privatised?

  • Religious activities can only take place at work
  • It has been confined to the private sphere of the family
  • Members must pay to take part in religious activities
  • Religion is actually a myth

7. Which group have stopped the Catholic Church from a drastically declining attendence?

  • Eastern European immigrants
  • Western immigrants
  • Immigrans from the Middle East
  • None of these groups

8. How has social and cultural diversity led to secularisation?

  • Industrialisation
  • All of these answers
  • Decline of Community
  • Diversity of occupations, cultures and lifestyles undermines religion

9. Who talks about religious diversity causing the loss of the sacred canopy?

  • Hadaway
  • Berger
  • Bruce
  • Wilson

10. What is cultural defence?

  • The way religion is used to defend a national, ethnic, local or group identity in a struggle against an external force
  • None of these answers
  • Where religion provides as sence of community for ethnic groups
  • A plausable reason for religion to spark conflict

11. Who defines structural differentiation as a process of specialisation that occurs with the development of industrial society?

  • Wilson
  • Durkheim
  • Parsons
  • Bruce

12. If current trends continue, Bruce predicts one religious organisation will fold, but what one?

  • The New Christian Right
  • Islam
  • The Methodist Church
  • The Catholic Church

13. What are 'bogus baptisms'?

  • Baptisms to get children into faith schools
  • Baptisms performed by people who are pretending to be priests
  • Catholic baptisms
  • Baptisms forced by faith schools

14. By 2015 what percentage of the adult population will attend church on Sundays?

  • 10%
  • 15%
  • 5%
  • 3%