Religious Pluralism

Classical Sociology
1. religion would eventually dissappear
2. society would become more rational, science more tangible
evidence of Religious Pluralism
1. New Religious Movements
2. growth of older religions i.e. Pentecostalism, Mormonism
3. Religious fundamentalism in all major religions
4. Multi-Culturalism
  1. variety of faiths
  2. Islam, Jewish, Hindus, Sikhs, West Indian Pentacostalists
Plurality of ideas and beliefs
1. Berger & Kellner (1981)
  1. pre-industrial societies had religion to provide a "fixed universe of meaning"/single core set of beliefs
2. Berger (1990)
  1. "Nomos"
    1. feeling of meaningfulness religion helps bring
  2. "Anomie"
    1. views of media, work place etc come into conflict with traditional views (Feeling of meaningless)
    2. People question what they have been told as true/what's passed as acceptable knowledge by religion
What is it?
1. refers to Christian and non-Christian beliefs
  1. mainstream religions no long appeal to everybody
    1. results in "market place" of religions to pick and choose from.
Civic Religion
1. Growth in most Traditional religions has ceased
2. Rituals belonging to Orthodox religion haven't stopped
  1. Christmas, Easter etc
3. celebration of the nation state
4. Royal weddings, funerals and rememberance days have sacred element to them

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	Created by Callum Mackenzie about 10 years ago