secularisation

Question 1

Weber

Answer 1

Rationalisation

• protestant reformation led by MLK in the 16th century led to rational ways of thinking replacing supernatural beliefs
• led to the belief that god simply created the world and does not intervene in it
• known as disenchantment

Question 2

Parsons

Answer 2

Structural differentiation

• the process of specialisation that occurs through the development of industrial society.

-before the industrial revolution, religion was the main source of education

• parsons argues that this led to religion being disengaged from modern society.

Question 3

Berger

Answer 3

Religious diversity

• catholicism held a monopoly of truth and society was under a ‘sacred canopy’. After the protestant reformation, the rise of the protestants and other sects that broke away from the church led to a ‘plurality of worldviews’ (varying interpretations of the truth)