Secularisation

• Wilson


  The process in which religious thinking, practice and institutions lose social significance
• Giddens


  The process where religion loses it's influence over vaious social spheres of life
• Religious participation


  The number of people who attend church services
• Religious disengagement 


  The church is no longer the forefront/main provider within society
• Religious pluralism


  More than one religion exists, people don't know what to believe
• Desacrilisation


  The sacred has little to no place in contemporary, Western society. Science and rationality begin to question religion
• Secularisation of religious institutions 


  Churches compromise their beliefs and stop being critical of society
• Globalisation and Fundamentalism 


  Extreme religion where they think their religion is the 'correct' one and cannot be questioned. Opposition leads to violence
• New voluntarism 


  Found that people attend and believe if they want to
• Kendal project


  We are not experiencing a religious revolution
• Grace Davie


  'Belief without belonging'