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Without the increased membership and activity religious sects, it would be impossible to argue against the claim that we now live in a fundamentally secular society - Evaluate this statement
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Secularisation essay Without the increased membership and activity religious sects, it would be impossible to argue against the claim that we now live in a fundamentally secular society Evaluate this statement. One of the major disputes in the sociology of religion concerns how important religion continues to be in an age of industrial and scientific progress. This debate is interesting not only for its religious importance, but also for the methodological issues that it raises. The word 'secular' means 'worldly, not sacred, temporal, profane'. The process of decline, the social significance of religious thinking, practice and institutions is called secularisation. On the one hand, there are those who suggest that religion has gone through a massive decline, from a 'Golden Age of Religiosity'- A time presumed to have existed in the past when members of society were more religious than they are today. Some believe this time to be a myth, to a situation where religion...
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