Secularisation

Question 1

RATIONALISATION - rational ways of thinking replacing religious ones

Answer 1

BRUCE - A technological worldview has replaced religious explanations e.g. looking for scientific reasons behind a planet crashing rather than blaming God

Question 2

DIVERSITY - now, no church can claim a monopoly of truth but in the Middle Ages catholics has no competition

Answer 2

BERGER - diversity + choice will stimulate interest + participation in religion

Question 3

religion has become PRIVATISED - confined to the home and family

Answer 3

Falling church attendance rates ignore those who believe but don’t go