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31 Cards in this Set

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On approach to death we naturally become more concerned about spiritual matters

Heelas

30% of churchgoers are

over 65

Religion can be a force for social change

Neo-marxists

Hegemony

Gramsci

Fundamentalism response to living in uncertain post modernity

Bauman

2 responses to post modernism, Resistant identity e.g fundamentalism or project identity e.g feminism

Castells

clash of civilisations is an example of orientalism

Jackson

ISA spreads dominant ideology, forces consent and acceptance that positions are unchangeable

Althusser

Christian bibles promise that the meek...

shall inherit the earth

Hindu Caste system

legitimises social hierarchy

Women's closer proximity to birth and death brings them closer to God

Davie

religion is a means of conserving EM culture and language and is a way of coping with oppression in a racist society

Bird

High level among first generation immigrants but loss of importance like Irish Catholics

Herberg

distinguish too sharply between Fundamentalism and Cosmopolitanism, ignoring hybrid movements

Beckford

sects draw members from poor and oppressed

Troelstch

despite some members being M/C they are still marginalised e.g hippies druggies

Wallis

it is the relatively deprived who break away from churches to form sects

Stark and Bainbridge

industrialisation led to....

Methodism

sects are world rejecting, short-lived, 2nd generation lack commitment, death of charismatic leader

Niebuhr

religious ideas have been dis-embedded by globalisation e.g electronic church, jesus in disneyland, re-enchantment is the growth of unconventional belief

Lyon

what Lyon describes is weak religion, no effect on peoples lives, by 2030 the C of E will be small voluntary organisation

Bruce

only 5% of adults attend church on sunday but used to be

20% in the 60's

religion can be seen as the devaluation of women

Holm

fundamentalism confined to monotheistic religions

Bruce

2 characteristics of new age- self spirituality and detraditionalisation

Heelas

popularity with New Age due to move to PM, people disillusioned with the failure of churches to meet spiritual needs

Drane

Nation of Islam recruited successfully among...

disadvantaged blacks in the USA

Moonies recruited from a more...

affluent group

Ghandi's non-violent opposition movement was rooted in

Hindu doctrine= social change

Religion has potential to be both conservative and force for social change

Macguire

Clergy declined from 45,000 in 1900 to 30,000 in 2005 but should have been

80,000