Religion, renewal and choice

Explain what is meant by believing without belonging.

• Where individuals are making choices about being baptised.

• When people still hold religious beliefs but don't go to church

• When people opt to attend services when it suits them

• When society undergoes a process of religious decline

What is meant by vicarious religion?

• When religion is practised by an active minority on behalf of a greater majority

• When church members opt to attend sunday services to please the community

• When adults attend church in the absence of their children

• When children no longer wish to be a part of relgion

What do you understand by multiple modernities?

• When society has more than one type of system

• When two countries are modern but have different patterns of religiosity.

• When America goes through a process of modernisation

• When the UK has many different types of faiths that coexist

Voas and Crockett do not accept Davie's claim that there is more believing than belonging.

• true

• false

Bruce argues if people are not willing to invest then involvement in religion diminishes

• true

• false

Who talks about 'spiritual shopping'?

• Abby Day

• Voas and Crockett

• Gracie Davie

• Daniele Hervieu-Leger

What is cultural amnesia?

• it is a loss of collective memory

• When parents forget aspects of religious ideas

• It is when a group of people in society lose their cultural customs

• It is when a person has temporary memory loss

Spiritual shopping means when people individualise religion

• true

• false

Who were the pilgrims?

• It is when people follow an indivudal path to discovery

• It is when people are brainwashed into joining a sect

• it is when people are connected to the wider population

• It is when a religion offers a group a strong sense of belonging

Who are the converts?

• those who are on a individual journey and seek therapeutic help

• a group of people who share the same ethnic background and religious doctrine

• it is a group of people who have extremist ideas

• people who are fed up of their existing religion