Secularisation

Question 1

What is max Webers rationalisation theory ?

Answer 1

The process by which rational ways of thinking have replaced religious ones

Question 2

What is Bruces technological world view ?

Answer 2

Technology has replaced religious or supernatural experiences

Question 3

What is the process of Definition Parsons describes ?

Answer 3

Specialisation that occurs with the development of industrial society, with specialised institutions carrying out multiple functions that used to be done by the church

Question 4

What is the disengagement of religion from society known as ?

Answer 4

Structural differentiation

Question 5

What are the main points about religion bruce agrees with ?

Answer 5

Become separate from wider society
Lost many of its functions
Become privatised
Confined to secular rules

Question 6

What has society moving from pre industrial to industrial lead to ?

Answer 6

Decline in community and religion

Question 7

What did bruce state about industrialisation ?

Answer 7

It undermined the consensus from religion that held small communities together

Question 8

What did bruce say about diversity ?

Answer 8

Even though people still hold religious beliefs in society​, cannot avoid that many peoples around them hold different views ,undermining the believability of beliefs due to alternatives existing​

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Question 9

What were the main components of the 500AD-1500AD religious canopy ?

Answer 9

Church regained power
Everyone lived and worked
Church truth went unquestioned

Question 10

What were the main components of the protestant reformation 1601 ?

Answer 10

Protestant churches and sects broke away from catholic church ​

Religious diversity

Disappearance of the sacred canopy

Question 11

What is the plausibility structure that Berger describes ?

Answer 11

Crisis for credibility for religion

Diversity undermines plausibility of one faith

Existence of alternate religions

Truth becomes a matter of opinion

Creates possibility for religious opt outs

Question 12

What is cultural transition ?

Answer 12

Religion provides support and sense of community for ethnic groups such as migrants to a different country and culture

Question 13

How has it been argued that religion survives ?

Answer 13

Focus on group identity ​

Not disproveing secularisation ​

Religion loses importance once migrants integrates into society ​

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Question 14

What do bruce and Wilson argue about secularisation in america ?

Answer 14

Its more a result of church becoming more superficial not abandoned