Topic 3 - Secularisation in America

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What percentage of Americans did Wilson find in 1962 to be attending church?
Fourty Five
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How would Bellah refer to the beliefs in America?
Civil Religion
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Who gives three sources of evidence for why USA is becoming secular?
Bruce
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What reason did Hadaway give for not believing that the given percentage of Americans attended church? Churches would be
Full
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What does Bruce believe has masked the true secularisation occuring?
Statistics on attendance
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How does Bruce argue that American religion has remained popular? By becoming
Less religious
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What activity was seen morally wrong by 91% in 1951
Social Dancing
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What term does Bruce use to refer to a growing acceptance of others' beliefs?
Practical Relativism
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CRITICISM - Religion is not declining, it's .....
Changing
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CRITICISM - The secularisation theory ignores religious ....
revivals
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