Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Explanations of
secularisation
- Rationalisation
- Rational ways of
thinking replace
religious ones
- Disenchantment
- The protestant
reformation saw god as
existing outside of the
world not in it
- events couldn't
be explained as
an act of god
- the development
of science
undermined the
religious world
view
- Technological world view
- replaced religious ways of
thinking as events could
be explained with
technology
- Structural differentiation
- many different
institutions develop
to take on the roles
previously
performed by the
church
- religion has become
separated from wider
society and privatised in
the home and family
- religion has lost its powers of
education to the state
- Social and cultural diversity
- Industrialisation
has caused
society to become
more diverse
- caused overall belief to fall
- Religious diversity
- The protestant refomation
caused a number of
different sects to appear
from the catholic church
- the variety if different beliefs on
offer caused overall confident in
religion to decline due to the
multiple versions of the 'truth'
- Contradictions of secularisation
- Cultural defense
- religion provides a focus
for the defense of
national/group identity
against an external force
- Cultural transition
- religion provides a sense of
community for ethnic groups
living in a different culture
- The Spiritual revolution
- traditional religion is giving way to
new age spirituality that
emphasises personal development
- The growth of the New Age
was not equal to the fall in
traditional religion, so it was
not replacing it
- traditional religion was in decline because of
its demand for high discipline which does not
correlate with a post modern society
- P.M. emphasises personal development and fulfilment