Sercularisation

Sercularisation

1. Participation in organised religion

2. Religious influence in society

3. Growth of religious pluralism

4. Emergence of mass media

5. Differing definitions of religion

   • An expression in one form or another of a sense of dependance on a power outside ourselves, a power of which we may speak as a spiritual or moral pow
   • 'An attempt to formulate an all-embracing system of meaning' (Berger and Luckmann)
   • 'A set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate condition of his existence' (Bellah)
   • A phenomenon with a number of distinctive ''core dimensions - beliefs, practices, experiences, knowledge and consequences'' (Glock and Stark)

6. Growth of rational and scientific thought

7. Moral compromises and materialism of religious institutions

8. Arguments which challenge the concept of sercularisation