Secularisation

Question 1

Church attendance stats

Answer 1

From 1800s to 1960s Church of England attendance declined significantly around 40% - 15% went to church
In 2015 only around 5% of the population regularly attended a church service on Sunday

Question 2

Decline in the number clergy

Answer 2

Between 1995 and 2011 the number of Catholic priests fell by a third and similar trends are occurring in the Church of England

Question 3

Religious affiliation statistics

Answer 3

In 2015 British social attitudes survey suggested that half of all adults stated that they didn’t belong to any religion

Question 4

Terry Sanderson

Answer 4

CofE is losing its core business , people are increasingly abandoning church services and pursuing civil alternatives that are secular in nature

Question 5

Weber

Answer 5

The enlightenment led to the disenchantment of the world as science became the dominant belief system and as a consequence the public do not believe in the sacred qualities of religion - desacralisation

Question 6

Bruce : privatised religious belief

Answer 6

Modern societies have undergone a process called individualisation and consequently religions no longer exert the same control over communities e.g religious teachings are no longer imposed upon society

Question 7

Berger

Answer 7

Vast number of religious organisations that now exist which has caused a crisis of credibility for religion because they claim the monopoly of truth

Question 8

Abby day

Answer 8

Uk has become increasingly secular- many people in the uk still consider themselves to be Christian even if they have no religious beliefs but want to be part of the british culture

Question 9

Davie

Answer 9

Religious belief has become privatised, nature of religious activity has changed and many people believe without feeling the need to belong to a particle movement - vicarious religion is now the norm and it is the role of the active minority to pray on behold of the wider community.

Question 10

Helland

Answer 10

The growth of the internet has changed the way in which the public can interact with the religious community and therefore religious beliefs have become disembedded from places of worship :
Religion online - when established religions use the internet to communicate
Online religion : where like minded people interact in forums to discuss their beliefs in an unstructured format