challenge of secularisation scholars

Question 1

scholars in syllabus

Answer 1

freud
dawkins

Question 2

wider scholars

Answer 2

auguste comte
bertrand russel
british humanist association
professor leslie francis
francis collins
charles taylor
christopher dawsons
professor james conroy
tim farron

Question 3

auguste comte

Answer 3

programmatic secularisation- civilised society develops from a religious world view, to an abstract or metaphysical world view, to a positive, scientific, rational one. religion would give way to positive secularism and the power of scientific reasoning would rid society of all its false views

Question 4

betrand russel

Answer 4

religion is only taken seriously because of its history, and we should not only believe things because it is practical to do so. teapot in space analogy- if he claimed that a teapot floating in space was powerful etc he’d be thought a madman, without historical evidence to back it up

Question 5

british humanist association

Answer 5

a secular state should not fund schools with a religious character, give schools permission to recruit pupils on the basis of religion, or hold acts of worship or prayer in lesson time (danger of segregating children into different religious groups, creating a sense that people in different religions live parallel lives, and increasing intolerance

Question 6

leslie francis

Answer 6

argues that in church schools, there is a more positive attitude towards religious diversity, and that young Christians are more open to people from other religious backgrounds

Question 7

francis collins

Answer 7

religious thinking does not necessarily close down scientific thinking. he led the human genome project while being christian

Question 8

charles taylor

Answer 8

important to recognise that societies are becoming increasingly multicultural and no one culture should impose itself on others- this will cause minorities to diminish and vanish

Question 9

christopher dawson

Answer 9

essay ‘the challenge of secularism’ argues that religion is endangered by consciously anti-religion ideology, making secular education systems problematic.
removing religion from forms of outward expression deprives religion (music, culture, art, architecture), and because of the extent to which religion is steeped in culture, stops people fully engaging in their culture

Question 10

james conroy

Answer 10

religious schools counter the general view that the market should define human flourishing. they are a counterbalance to any single driving influence in education

Question 11

tim farron

Answer 11

politician who claimed to believe gay sex was not sinful while running for 2017 general election

Question 12

tony blair

Answer 12

‘we don’t do religion’

Question 13

nadia eweida

Answer 13

british airways, cross

Question 14

lee v mcarthur and others

Answer 14

gay cake