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Jessica Pemberton Modern Britain is now a secular society. To what extent do sociological arguments and evidence agree with this view? (40) This essay critically evaluates the claim that secularisation is occurring in modern Britain. The claim derives mainly from view that secularisation is the product of industrial revolution and growth of scientific knowledge. Many sociologists have agreed that change in society will lead to changes in religion. Furthermore, many have claimed that social change would lead to the weakening or even disappearance of religion. Many sociologists have tried to define secularisation, Bryan Wilson (Religion in Secular Society, 1966), describes secularisation as, "The process whereby religious thinking, practices and institutions lose their social significance". While Peter Berger (The Social Reality of Religion, 1969) argues that it is "The process by which sectors of society and culture are removed from the domination of religious institutions and symbols". Secularisation therefore, is a process whereby "religious activity"...

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