Introduction Flashcards
Sociologist of religion, Steve Bruce, describes Christianity in Britain as a ? ? of its former self.
Pale shadow.
For many in Western Europe, religion has become a largely private matter, an expression of individual ?, often described as “?”, a theory linking a decline in religion to ?
Preference.
Secularisation.
Modernisation.
Religion and belief reside in the “? ?”, leaving the “public space” free for views and practices that can be justified by reason alone.
Private space.
Jose Casanova identifies three ways in which people talk about secularisation:
- Decline of religious ? and practice in modern society.
- ? of religion.
- Secular separation of ? of state, economy and science.
Belief.
Privatisation.
Spheres.
Perhaps Britain isn’t secular because major national events, such as Remembrance Day, involve ?
Religions.
If secular refers to the nature of government, then perhaps it isn’t secular because there is a strong link between the establishment and ?
Christianity.
A number of vocal public figures who are prominent atheists (“? ?” by Tina Beattie), such as Richard Dawkins, Steven Fry and ? ? challenged the traditional presence of Christianity in English culture and its influence over moral matters in law, like euthanasia and ?
New atheists.
Philip Pullman.
Homosexuality.
Spirituality seems to be flourishing with sociologists observing a considerable increase in alternative spiritual practices such as ?
Mindfulness.
Thinkers, including Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Richard Dawkins, have argued that religion is something entirely of the ? ?
Human mind.
Immigration has brought new religious populations into the ?
UK.
Charles ? suggests that, in our ? age, the presumption that a government will be Christian, and so will the state and the people within it, has been replaced with a ? ? situation.
Taylor.
Secular.
Plural religious.
