Secularisation

Question 1

Secularisation - Wilson

Answer 1

The lack of societal strength in religious beliefs, institutions and practices

Question 2

Crockett stats

Answer 2

estimates that in 1998, 40% or more of the adult population of Britain attended church on sundays

Question 3

Wilson stats

Answer 3

• about 5% of the adult population attended church on sunday in 2015
• sunday attendance fell from 1.8 mil in 1960 to under 0.8 mil in 2013

Question 4

Census stats

Answer 4

church, weddings and baptisms remain more popular than attendance at Sunday services but the trend still decreases
1967 - 60% of weddings were in the church, but by 2012 the proportion was only 30%
Between 1965 and 2011 - number of weddings in Catholic churches fell by 75%

Question 5

Rationalisation

Question 6

Disenchantment

Question 7

Technological Worldview

Question 8

Structural Differentiation

Question 9

Privatisation

Question 10

Decline of community

Question 11

Industrialisation

Question 12

Plausibility of beliefs

Question 13

Alderidge criticisms of social and cultural diversity

Question 14

Religious Diversity

Question 15

The Sacred Canopy

Question 16

Cultural defence and transition

Question 17

Etherberg - study of religion and immigration to the USA

Question 18

Criticisms of Cultural defence and transition

Question 19

Criticisms of Secularisation theory

Question 20

Secularisation from Within