age differences younger Flashcards
religion is unattractive to the young
younger people find services boring and repetitive following the norms and values of the older generation and out of touch with modern styles. younger peoples values and opinions are not valued in religion eg gay rights or legal abortion. these ideas are bizarre to younger
youngers making religion unattractive
AO3 religion is unattractive to the young
christiocentric and does not apply to religions like islam where large amount of followers are younger people
the expanding spiritual market theorist
lynch
expanding spiritual market explanation
suggested that young people are turning away from traditional religion and are turning to a expanding spiritual market. while involves a greater disverity to religious and spiritual ideas. can spiritual shop and pick and mix to what suits them. there’s a greater set of options outside traditional religion that they can you as a way of expressing themselves and develop their personal self
AO3 extended spiritual market
bruce weak religion. if u can dip in and out of it it’s not a strong faith
declining religious education bruce
church of england struggles to recruit younger people and not able to socialise them into religious thinking ideas such as religious education ie sunday schools. they are im a state of decline. no longer being taught religious norms and values
AO3 declining religious education
faith schools still exist emphasise that religious education is still happening for some
pragmatic reasons
there’s a range of practice reasons for the decline of belief in the young. leisure is a much bigger part of life and are open all day even sunday. younger people have more interesting things to do with their time and have demands on their time where they do things they enjoy
AO3 pragmatic reasons
davie believing without belonging
