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Religion,Renewal and
Choices
- Davie 'Belief without belonging'
- people no longer attend church 'to be
seen' so church attendance is now more
of a personal choice
- NO OBLIGATION
- New formed religions can grow
- NO OBLIGATION
- 'Vicarious Religions' are increasing- a group of
clergy worship on behalf of a group of people
- Multiple modernities in each country
- people no longer attend church 'to be
seen' so church attendance is now more
of a personal choice
- Hervieu-Leger 'Spiritual Shopper'
- 'Cultural Amnesia' people are
no longer remembering the
religion they were born into
- Young people are now
choosing to shop around
to find their own belief
system
- 'Cultural Amnesia' people are
no longer remembering the
religion they were born into
- Lyon 'Jesus in Disneyland
- The media gives us
access to different
religions from around
the world
- We can worship through the
media without having to leave out
homes to attend a service
- The church has become deinstitutionalised
- The church has become deinstitutionalised
- We can construct identities
though what we consume
- Religion is a 'sphere of consumption'
- People may have left religious organisations but HAVE
NOT abandoned religion. They are 'religious consumers'
pricing together different pieces of religions to make use
of them.
- People may have left religious organisations but HAVE
NOT abandoned religion. They are 'religious consumers'
pricing together different pieces of religions to make use
of them.
- We can worship through the
media without having to leave out
homes to attend a service
- Re-enchantment of the word
- The media gives us
access to different
religions from around
the world
- Stark and Bainbridge, Religious Market Theory
- 1. People are naturally religious as it meets human needs
2. Rational choices made by people are based on the
benefits of religion
- Religion provides up with
supernatural compensators
for when things go wrong.
- we don't live forever, but we have life after death
- Only religion can provide us with this.
- Only religion can provide us with this.
- we don't live forever, but we have life after death
- Whist church attendance is declining,
there is a market gap for sects and
cults.
- The church will try and make religions
more attractive by offering new services
to its believers.
- 1. People are naturally religious as it meets human needs
2. Rational choices made by people are based on the
benefits of religion
- Norris and Inglehart, Existential Security Theory
- Reject market theory as they say it only applies to America
- religion meets a need for security
- where people feel they are insecure, religion provides them religion- popular with LOW INCOME families/groups.
- 3rd world and poor families are especially religious
- 3rd world and poor families are especially religious
- where people feel they are insecure, religion provides them religion- popular with LOW INCOME families/groups.
- 'The feeling that survival is secure enough that it
can be taken for granted'
- Reject market theory as they say it only applies to America
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