Secularisation

Questions on secularisation.

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What evidence is there for secularisation?
less people getting married in church, less baptisms, lower church attendance, decline in Christian beliefs being held, Sunday school attendance decline
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What is secularisation?
Secularisation is when religion has less influence on society.
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What is the main idea for the cause of secularisation?
Modernisation- a decline in tradition. Tradition has been replaced with sicentific ways of thinking.
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What else is believed to have caused secularisation?
Industrialisation- it has broken up small communities which were held together by the church and religious beliefs.
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What has diversity caused?
Sociologists believe that diversity has become more powerful than religious organisations and has lead to secularisation.
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What is secularisation?

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Secularisation is when religion has less influence on society.

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