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Secularisation (Social and cultural diversity (Diversity of occupations,…

- - - - Social and geographical mobility creates more diversity
      - close-knit rural community give way to loose-knit urban community with diverse beliefs and values
  - - - absence of practising religious community - religious belief and practice decline.
  - - - Pre industrial communities: Wilson - shared values expressed through collective rituals - integrated people, regulated behaviour
        
        Religion eventually lost it's hold & vitality over individuals (lost basis in communities)
  - - - Aldridge - Religion can be source of identity on a worldwide scale - Jewish, Hindu, Muslim. - some religious communities are imagines and interact on social media. - Pentecostal and other religions flourish in impersonal urban areas.
        
        Community does not have to be in a particular area. Aldridge
- - - - For example, the church loses the influence it once had on education, social welfare and the law
  - - - Religious beliefs are now largely a matter of personal choice and religious institutions have lost much of their influence on wider society, which as a result, traditional rituals and symbols have lost meaning
- - - - Religion provides support+community for ethnic groups
        
        Herberg: religion and immigration in USA.
        
        Similar functions in other ethnic groups to UK
    - - Bruce: religion on survives due to focus for group identity
        
        Shows how religion only survives performing functions than relating individuals to supernatural
        
        Example: Churchgoing in Poland declined after fall of communism
        
        Example: Religion loses importance once integrated into society