Secularisation
Cards (53)
- What is the key debate in the sociology of beliefs in society?
- How did Brian Wilson define secularisation?
- What does the English Church Census data suggest about church attendance?
- What did Crockett refer to the 19th century as?
- What did Gill et al. use to show a decline in belief?
- What prediction did Steve Bruce make about Methodism?
- Who discussed rationalisation and disenchantment in society?
- How did Weber describe the world in the Middle Ages?
- What did Weber argue began the processes of rationalisation?
- What would people seek for explanations of illness according to Weber?
- What did Weber see as a change in religious beliefs?
- What concept did Peter Berger introduce regarding shared beliefs?
- How does pluralism affect shared beliefs according to Berger?
- What percentage of churchgoing young Christians believed Christianity was the one true religion in the 1920s?
- What percentage believed the same by the late 1970s?
- How did Steve Bruce expand on Weber's rationalisation concept?
- What do people assume after an airplane accident according to Bruce?
- What has the state taken over from religion according to Parsons?
- What happens to religion as it becomes more private?
- What is the concept of secularisation from within?
- What is one way some religions adapt to modernity?
- What is the evidence that society is becoming more secular?
- Why is church census data considered unreliable?
- How can prior knowledge of a census date affect church attendance data?
- What issue arises when religious organizations provide their own attendance data?
- What tendency do people exhibit when completing questionnaires about church attendance?
- Who conducted research indicating significant overstating of church attendance in the US?
- What did Hadaway find regarding people who describe themselves as religious?
- How does church attendance relate to religiosity?
- What factors influenced church attendance in the 1850s?
- What is Grace Davie's argument regarding religion today?
- What does Davie mean by "privatised" belief?
- How do people practice religion vicariously according to Davie?
- What traditional events do people still turn to religion for?
- What concept did David Lyon introduce regarding religious beliefs?
- How does Lyon's idea of "pick and mix" beliefs manifest?
- What is Bruce's counter-argument to the idea of changing religious beliefs?
- What did Berger initially predict about secularization?
- What did Berger later argue about the state of religion globally?
- Why did Berger believe western academics misjudged global religiosity?