Page 2: Detailed Analysis of Secularisation Processes

This page delves deeper into various aspects of secularisation sociology revision notes, examining different definitions and contemporary demographic changes in British society.

Definition: Secularisation manifests in multiple ways, including religious decline, worldly conformity, institutional disengagement, belief transposition, and world desacralization.

Example: The 2021 Census shows significant demographic shifts, with a 5.5 million drop in Christianity and a 44% rise in Islamic followers, illustrating modern secularisation in the UK.

Highlight: Cities like Leicester and Birmingham have become 'minority majorities' with 59.1% ethnic minority populations, showing dramatic demographic changes from 2001 to 2021.

Quote: "From a sacred to a secular society: where a society moves from reliance on religion in promoting social solidarity towards a more complex situation where religion takes a place in a competitive market of beliefs and ideas."

Page 7: American Secularisation

An examination of secularisation patterns in America, providing important contrasts to European experiences.

Quote: Wilson argues that religion has become "more part of American way of life now than of deeply held religious beliefs."

Highlight: American religious practice often maintains high attendance while becoming more superficial in nature.