Zusammenfassung der Ressource
religion, renewal and choice
- Postmodernity and religion
- Davie: believing without belonging
- religion is not declining but
taking a more privatised form
- B.W.B people hold beliefs but
do not go to church
- people still use the
church for rites of
passage
- spritual shopping
- cultural amnesia - loss of
collective memory
- religion continues through
individual consumerism
- people have become
spiritual shoppers with 'do it
yourself' beliefs
- Link to religious
consumerism 'pick and
mix'
- increased equality has reduced
peoples need for religion
- jesus in disneyland
- relocation of religion
- globalisation has
increased access to new
religions
- the media lift these out of
their contexts and put
them into new places and
times
- Religious consumerism
- we construct our
identities through
what we consume
- Pick and mix to meet our needs
- religion has relocated to the
sphere of consumption
- people may have abandoned
religious organisations but
have no abandoned religion
- Re-enchantment of
the world
- There has been a growth
of non-traditional
religions
- religious market theory
- people are naturally religious and they
make rational choices based on the
costs and benefits of all available
religions
- religion provides us with
super-natural compensators when
real rewards are unobtainable.
- there is a historical cycle of
decline, revival and renewal.
- competition leads to
improvements in the religious
goods on offer
- existential security theory
- religious market theory fails to
explain the variations in
religions between societies
- level of religious belief depends
upon the level of existential
security
- religion meets a need for
security, so insecure groups
have strong religious beliefs
- explains the differences in
religiosity between MEDC's
and LEDC's
- The USA is an exception, high
levels of inequality lead to high
religiosity