Identifies a trend towards practical relativism among American Christians in how everyone is entitled to their own beliefs.
In 1924 94% of churchgoers believed that ‘Christianity was the one true religion, in 1977 only 41% agreed.
Evaluation to Secularisation
Religion isn’t declining, just changing.
Secularisation theory is one-sided (it doesn’t consider the religious revivals and the growth of new religions.
Religion may have declined in Europe not globally.
Religious diversity only causes an increase in choice not a decline in belief overall.
Lyon criticises secularisation for assuming that religion is declining, he argues that we are actually in a period of re-enchantment with the growth of unconventional beliefs, practices and spirituality.