Religious Diversity | Beliefs in Society | A-Level Sociology

welcome to this cheetah to you sociology topic video on beliefs in society looking at religious diversity not all sociologists accept the idea that society is becoming more secular some such as burger and stark and bainbridge argue that there is greater religious diversity in society that compensates for the decline in more traditional forms of worship

religious diversity is in part a result of greater access to the diverse range of religious and spiritual beliefs in society which has come about with the process of globalization in society the growth of new religious and spiritual movements has led to people moving from more traditional religions and in this video we will explore why

this is the case using data from the 2018 social attitude survey into religious beliefs it can be seen that there has been a sharp decline in both beliefs in religion and in traditional religion over the past 25 years in 2018 the majority of the uk population had no religious beliefs that is 52

compared to just under a third of the uk population in 1993. this can be seen as evidence of secularization but within those who do declare a belief there are some interesting changes in 1993 just three percent of respondents declared themselves as members of non-denominational christian religions by 2018 that had increased to 13

furthermore there have been significant increases in the number of non-christian religions with a rise from two percent to nine percent with islam seeing the largest increase from one percent of respondents in 1993 to six percent in 2018 one of the impacts of greater religious diversity is how it has led people to question the authority of traditional