Age And Religiosity

Question 1

3 explanations for age diffences

Answer 1

Voas and Crockett

The aging effect
The period of cohort effect
Secularisation

Question 2

The aging effect

Answer 2

People turn to religion as they get older out of fear. E.g using evidence from the Kendall heart project,Heelas argues people become more interested in spirituality as they age

Question 3

The period of cohort effect

Answer 3

People born during a particular period may be more likely or less likely to be religious because of the particular events they lived through such as war or rapid social changes e.g. the generation that lived through ww1 and ww2 are more religious than people who lived through covid

Question 4

Evaluation for cohort effect

Answer 4

Younger people turns more to on,one religion in covid

Question 5

Secularisation

Answer 5

As religion declines in importance, each generation becomes less religious than the one before it