secularisation in britain

overview

• 1851, 40% or more attend church on sundays

• decline in amount going to church

• increase in average age of those who go to church

• decline in those who hold Christian beliefs

• fewer baptisms and church weddings

• greater diversity in other religions

• other alternatives: religion is changing not declining

wilson

• religious social influence is declining

• church attendance has failed from 40% in the 1850s to 10-15% by 1960s

church attendance today

• 2020 - 4% attended church on sundays

• sunday attendance fell from 1.6 million in 1960 to under 0.7 million in 2020

• church or england and catholic church has had more of a decline than small organisations

• non christian has increased due to immigration and higher birth rates

• some smaller organisations have risen in number

• bogus baptisms - children are baptised so they can get into faith schools that only accept baptised children - baptism is the entry ticket

religious affiliation today

• a persons religious affiliation refers to the membership of a religion

• continuing decline in the number of people who are affiliated to a religion

civil rights movement

• 1950s/60s

• bruce - religion as an ideological resource beliefs

• taking the moral high ground

• channelling dissent/opposition

• acting as an honest broker

• mobilising public opinion

NCR

• politically and morally conservativw

• aims are to make abortion, homosexuality and divorce illegal and go back to god

• traditional family, gender roles, ban sex education

• televangelism

• right wing