decline in powers and influence of religious movements

• Jesus in Disneyland - Lyon

  religion is going through a process of ‘Disneyfication’ in that it is becoming trivialised and taken less seriously. He suggests that, in the post-modern ‘market’ world, people are want to customise their identities and are free to do so as religion is fast-becoming just another commodity on the market shelf.
• Secularisation from within - Herberg

  religions are going against their traditions and regulations themselves and as such are showing weakness. He points out the ordination of women as evidence of this & also the downplaying of ‘miracles’ and the literal interpretations of scripture, the acceptance of homosexuality as evidence of this