secularisation

Question 1

How did Wilson define secularisation?

Answer 1

the process whereby religious thinking, practice and institutions lose social significance.

Question 2

what percentage of the adult population attended church in the 1851 census of religious worship?

Answer 2

40%

Question 3

Give two methodological problems with assessing data.

Answer 3

questions asked can change the information obtained and when filling out a census the main householder will probably fill in data on behalf of the young people.

Question 4

Why is it difficult to measure decline?

Answer 4

Historical methods are not very reliable.

Question 5

What did Weber say the medieval world view was?

Answer 5

Enchanted garden

Question 6

during the protestant reformation Weber’s view was challenged by a more rational view. What was this view?

Answer 6

God was transcendent. saw the world in a more scientific way.

Question 7

Why do humans have a more scientific view? give one reasons.

Answer 7

Disease can be explained scientifically.

Question 8

What does Bruce think supernatural explanations have been replaced with?

Answer 8

Technological worldview.

Question 9

Explain parsons argument of structural difference.

Answer 9

large institutions have been replaced by smaller institutions. this leads to the disengagement of religion it has become privatized.

Question 10

Explain Bruce’s argument of social diversity

Answer 10

In the past, small rural communities were held together by religious practices, but people now live in large urban communities.

Question 11

Explain Berger’s argument of religious diversity.

Answer 11

diversity undermines the plausibility of religion. you question religious groups have different beliefs to your own but if they are wrong, it is possible they are wrong. religion therefore becomes a personal point of view rather than a single set of beliefs.

Question 12

What are Bruce’s two arguments against secularisation?

Answer 12

Cultural transition and Cultural defence.

Question 13

Explain Cultural transition.

Answer 13

religion provides support and community for immigrants.

Question 14

Explain cultural defence.

Answer 14

religion provides a focal point for the defence of a group identity.

Question 15

explain New age religion.

Answer 15

different to traditional religion because its more about people finding themselves than doing your duty to God.