Religion, Renewal and Choice

Question 1

Who proposed the change from obligation to consumption?

Answer 1

Davie (2013)

Question 2

What three key things did Davie propose about the move from obligation to consumption?

Answer 2

1- Believing without belonging
2- Vicarious religion: the Spiritual Health Service
3- Neither believing nor belonging

Question 3

What is believing without belonging?

Answer 3

Religion is more privatised than it once was, people are reluctant to affiliate themselves with organisations than they used to

Question 4

What does Davie mean through Vicarious religion?

Answer 4

People no longer practice, taking the benefits from the practice done by the clergy. The church now functions as a public service utility

Question 5

How does davie define “multiple modernities”?

Answer 5

The co-existence of many modern societies, different religious patterns in America & England for example

Question 6

Why do Voas and Crockett (2005) refute Davie’s claim that there is more believing than belonging?

Answer 6

Both belief in god & church attendance is declining, If Davie was right then only belonging would decline, nor belief itself