SOCA02H3 Lecture : You're welcome
Document Summary
As people began to focus on this world, it leads to advances to science. 95% of all scientists are still alive today. people think of events less of divine forces and more of social forces. Secularization does not mean the death of religion; it means the loss of importance of religion. sometimes religion is seen as the mark of ethnicity. conservatives see decline of religion as moral decline. Liberals see decline of religion as liberation from historical rules. Para-religion something close to religion, missing some aspects though. churches; bureaucratic (pope at the top), system like a corporation. sects: breaking away from the churches because it disagrees with church doctrines. sometimes separation is based on geographical and doctrines. north american does not like the european classification, because it was founded on religious freedom. There are 3200 religious forms in north america.
