Ethnicity and Religion | Beliefs in Society | AQA A-Level Sociology

welcome to this cheah to you sociology topic video on beliefs in society focusing on ethnicity and religion over the past 70 years the UK has seen an increase in ethnic diversity which has had an impact on the diversity of religious practices in the UK whilst an individual's ethnic group does not necessarily indicate membership

of a particular religion mud detal found that South Asians were more likely to identify themselves by their religious affiliation than their nationality from various sources of data including social attitude surveys and the UK census conclusions can be drawn that there are higher levels of religious attendance for non-white groups than white groups and in this

video we're going to examine some of the reasons for those trends Bru argues that there are higher levels of religiosity amongst ethnic minority groups as a form of cultural defense as many non-white ethnic groups have migrated to predominantly white Nations their religion provides them with a form of defense against hostility for example racism or

religious intolerance such as islamophobia the sense of community that these individuals seek in the face of such abuse is provided by their religion this can be evidenced through the development of different denominations of Christianity that are predominantly attended by black African and black Caribbean citizens Baptist churches and 7th Day adventism are two examples of the

churches founded as a response to racism faced by early generations of migrants into the UK in the 1960s and 1970s a second reason for higher levels of religiosity amongst non-white ethnic groups is also proposed by Bruce he argues that religion helped to ease the transition of migrants into the UK Society by providing a sense of the