Lecture 4: Secularisation - issues and debates Flashcards
1
Q
What are the five measures of secularisation?
A
Disengagement, differentiation and socialisation, religious participation, desacralisation, secularisation of religious institutes and religious pluralism.
2
Q
Name challenges to secularisation.
A
Post modernism, fundamentalism.
3
Q
What is structural differentiation?
A
Where society moves for pre industrial/pre modern to industrial/modern.
4
Q
Who said “believing without belonging”?
A
Grace Davie.
5
Q
What is Wilsons definition of secularisation?
A
Where religion loses social significance.
