Secularisation Debate

Question 1

What are the three possible ways to measure secularisation?

Answer 1

Popularity
Plausibility
Power

Question 2

Name the three evidence for secularisation
How do you know that secularisation is happening?

Answer 2

Popularity
Plausibility
Power

Question 3

Ao1 popularity

Answer 3

The strongest evidence for secularisation in the UK come from church attendance statistics. From the census there has been a decrease in the population attending church from 1981to 2005
Religion only has a symbolic meaning today people only enter church for hatching, matching and dispatching ceremonies

Question 4

Ao3
Popularity

Answer 4

People who attend the church are not necessarily practising religious belief, and also who do believe may not see the need to attend. This is believing without belonging.
Or belonging without believing
Religion is a private experience, for many, therefore individual belief cannot be quantified

Question 5

Ao1 plausibility

Answer 5

Evidence on religious belief over the last 60 years shows that more people claim they hold religious beliefs and actually go to the church
Religious beliefs is declining and church attendance is also declining
There has been a decline in the belief of a personal God, and in traditional teachings about the afterlife

Question 6

Ao3
Plausibility

Answer 6

This is Christocentric those who descend from White Christians are becoming less religious, ethnic minorities, retain strong beliefs

Question 7

Ao1
Power

Answer 7

Wilson argues that the church is no longer involved in important areas of life, such as politics
Politicians do not ensure if their policies meet the approval of religious leaders
Wilson, conclude that the church occupies marginal status in modern society
Gay marriage
Divorce laws

Bruce argues that the troeltsch idea of churches having religious monopoly no longer replies not churches have lost them monopoly. And that they have been reduced to the status of denomination or cults competing with all the rest.

Question 8

Ao3
Power

Answer 8

Religion is still a major provider of education, and there has been a growth in faith schools, allowing religious groups to exert influence the media still shows a great interest in religious issues such as women bishops