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Explanations of Secularisation - Coggle Diagram
Explanations of Secularisation
Rationalisation +Disenchantment
After: Protestantism
Transcendent God and no influence
Natural force
Rationality and Science
Before : Catholicism
direct influence
Prayers and Spells
Enchanted Garden- supernatural force
Structural differentiation
Privatisation
Rituals & symbols lose meaning
Confined to home, personal choice.
Separated from society, lost functions
Parson's definition
Dominated pre-industrial ==> more specialised.
Specialisation with industrial society development
Disengagement
E.g. Church's influence vs. state
Functions transferred, disconnected.
Functions conform to secular state
E.g. faith schools qualifications
Modern states: religion = choice
Social and cultural diversity
Decline of community
pre-industrial --> industrial = decline of community
Wilson- shared values expressed through religion rituals
Industrial: lost basis = vitality & hold
Industrialization
Bruce: undermining consensus of religious beliefs
small cs -large with diverse beliefs & values
social & geographical mobility
breaks up communities
brings people tgt - more diversity
Diversity of occupations, cultures and lifestyles undermines religion
people hold diff views
Bruce: plausibility beliefs undermined by alternatives
undermined by individualism
absence of practising religious community
Criticisms
religion = source of identity on worldwide scale
imagined communities = global media
pentecostal groups in urban areas
Religious diversity
Instead of 1 many religion
Middle ages
Catholic Church
Monopoly
No challenge
sacred canopy
undeniable
Protestant Reformation
sect now :/
dif truth
NOW CHALLENGED
no evidence
more diverse
plausibility structure
ermmmmmm guys.........
relative ≠ absolute
