AQA - Sociology - Alternatives to Secularisation - full lesson

This pack contains:

A 45-slide PowerPoint presentation

This lesson covers:

• Re-cap of Post Modern theory

  • Definition, Grand Narratives and institutional power

• Starter Task - students discuss and share their experiences with religion in 21st century

• Two slides discussing the over-arching criticism of Secularisation Theory

  • Religious Market Theory & Theories of Late Modernity and Post-Modernism

-Grace Davie: From Obligation to Consumption - defined and discussed, examples provided to enhance understaning

• Believing without Belonging

• Vicarious Religion & The Spiritual Health Service

• Critics of Davie: Steve Bruce, Voas and Crocket, Abby Day

• Cultural Amnesia & Spiritual Shopping

• Danielle Hervieu-Leger: Pilgrims vs. Converts

Post Modern Religion

• Globalisation and its impact on religion
• Desembedded religion
• Religion online and Online Religion - reading, note taking and discussion task
• Religious Consumerism & The Sphere of Consumption
• Religious Consumerism
• Religious Disenchantment
• Reading and assessment task: New Age Religions
• Self-Religion and Sheilaism - video resource, reading task
• Task: students given tenants of major religions as well as tenants of some global religions. Students use their phones and this data to create their own ‘commandments’
• Religious Market Theory
  • Are humans inherently religious?
  • Religion as a Compensator
• American Vs. Europe
  • Supply Led Religion
  • Televagelism explored
  • Critiques of Religious Market Theory: Bruce, Norris and Inglehart, Beckford

Existential Security Theory

• People from poorer societies/nations are much more likely to be religious that people from richer societies/nations. Comparison made between Burundi (poorest nation on Earth) and Germany (one of the wealthiest)
• Norris and Inglehart: Existential Security
• Poor societies vs rich societies
• Case Study: Uruguay

Booklet

The booklet is 28 pages long
The book contains a combination of note taking, gapped sections, tasks
A two-page linear, bulletpointed list of key facts, dates and developments that will help students understand the process of seculariation and rise of alternative religions
Several consolidation activities aimed to help learners of all learning styles.