6.3 Secularisation

Question 1

What is secularisation?

Answer 1

The idea that religious beliefs, practices and organisations decline.

Question 2

State two pieces of evidence which suggest Secularisation is increasing in the UK?

Answer 2

*The fastest growing religious group is no religion which is 27% percent of the UK from the 2011 census report
*The CofE declined from 40 to 17 percent from 1983 to 2014

Question 3

List three processes that occur in modernisation of society that have a direct influence on the decline of religion?

Answer 3

*Rationalism
*Differentiation
*Decline of Community

Question 4

Describe why some people do not agree that secularisation is occuring?

Answer 4

They believe religion to be more important to them then society and to others.

Question 5

Outline the three principles of humanism?

Answer 5

*A scientific view of the universe that rejects supernatural beliefs
*A concern for the welfare of other humans beings and animals based on reason, not divine authority.
*The need for each person to create a meaning in their own life without a belief in like after death