Religion disappearing and spirituallity

Question 1

Davie

Answer 1

Religion isnt declining, its changing

• people believe without belonging

Question 2

Berger

Answer 2

Secularisation theory is ethnocentric

• nature of contemporary religion, globally, is pluralism rather than secularism
• plenty of evidence that religious belief is in fact growing rather than contracting

Question 3

Stark and bainbridge

Answer 3

Rational choice theory

• there was no ‘golden age’ of religion and religion remains largely constant, because people are ‘naturally’ religion and it meets various human needs