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1
What does Bruce mean by cultural defence?
Religion helps immigrants survive in hostile societies
Religion is a source of identity
Religion helps with transition to new country
Religion is a source of conflict
2
Disenchantment is....
When religion no longer acts as an opium of the people
When other institutions are now delivering what religion did
When people doubt religious truth
When people are no longer attending church
3
Which of the following can we conclude about the secularisation debate?
There is strong evidence of secularisation
The fall in church attendance doesn't mean the UK is secular
Religion is not declining, simply changing its form
People have not become atheists
4
What does Davie say is evidence of people still believing in a God?
Attending church in times when normality is interrupted
Being baptised or christened
Getting married in a Church
Celebrating Christmas
5
It is not certain whether measures of secularisation actually provide a true picture.
Lacks validity
Lacks representativeness
Lacks reliability
Lacks credibility
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What does Bruce mean by cultural transition?
Religion is abandoned by immigrants to new countries
Immigrants reinvigorate their religion
Religion helps give immigrants support in new country
Immigrants accommodate their religion
7
The way we define religiosity effects....
Whether secularisation is found
Both
Neither
How we measure secularisation
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What does Davie mean by vicarious religion?
Religion is unstable
Religion is stronger than ever before
People still believe but don't belong to a religion
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Who said that rationalisation was evidence of secularisation?
Berger
Parsons
Weber
Wilson
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Grace Davie says that people are now 'believing without belonging'
false
true
11
Which critics of secularisation argue that religious belief has not become irrelevant?
Interactionists
Postmodernists
Marxists
Feminists
12
Wilson and Bruce both suggest two forms of evidence that society is secular
Social and cultural diversity
Disenchantment and rationalisation
Church attendance figures and divorce rates
Cultural transition and cultural defence
13
There is a lack of consistency between religions in how they measure religiosity.
Lack of reliability
Lack of validity
Lack of credibility
Lack of representativeness
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What does Berger mean by the plausibility structure?
The geographical context within which a religion exists
The economic context within which a religion exists
The social context within which a religion exists
The historical context within which a religion exists
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What evidence does Helland argue shows that religion is disembedded?
Religion has less say in the making of laws in the UK
Churches are now being converted in to shops and apartments
The Internet is now a major religious community
Religion has watered down many of it's views
