In Religion / Senior High School | 2024-09-07

please patulong poreport it the way you understand all of it explain each in tagalog(imagine your reporting it)Chapter 11Is Religion Dying? Interrogating the Future of ReligionBrief OverviewPeople have different attitudes toward religion. The religious elderly in your family, for example, might be worried that young people do not share the same level of commitment they have toward certain religious traditions or practices. They are worried that in the future people will no longer be religious. But are people losing their faith? Is religion dying out? These are some of the questions the last chapter of this worktext seeks to answer. Specifically, it gives attention to the social and scientific explanations concerning contemporary religious change. Among others, it presents the theory of secularization which, broadly construed, argues that religion will fade away as a society modernizes.FIRST THINGS FIRSTProduced in the 1970s, the song "Imagine" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono is perh one of the most famous songs of the twentieth century. Your teacher will play a versio this song. Listen intently to its message.ImagineImagine there's no heavenIt's easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the peopleLiving for todayImagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion, tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will be as oneImagine no possessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungerA brotherhood of manImagine all the peopleSharing all the worldYou may say I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will live as oneEXPLOREThe Death of Religion: Secularization(is religion dying? The significance of this question to many is immediately demostrated by the fact that it generates a long list of Google results. Apart from passionate critics, those who have something to say about the question include religious traders, academics, and policy makers. Media outfits also devote attention to this question by providing space to experts in the study of religion. One entry comes from Diana Bass (2012) who argues that religion is at a crossroads today whether it dissipates or reinvent itself to her, either way is a choice for religion, with the succeeding generations looking back to ours as a watershed with far-ranging consequences)Bass's attitude reflects a sense of urgency over the future of religion. Perhaps resonating with her are those who mourn what they see as the consequences of religious negligence: moral breakdown, the disintegration of the family as a social institution. pornography, and materialism (This lamentation, however, runs in contrast to the triumphalism of a particular brand of secularism that calls for the eradication of the religious in public life (Voas and Day 2007) (Casanova (2011) described this as "secularist secularity whose lobbyists believe that "being liberated from religion [is] a condition for Human autonomy and human flourishing Reinforcing this is the increasing prominence of "New Atheism" that champions a militant attitude against those who profess religion Amarasingam, 2010)/ Rightly or wrongly, the question is religion dying?" readily unravels the tensions in the public sphere No wonder those who wish to address it objectively have to carefully explain themselves (Wilson 1985).Secularization TheorySecularization or the idea that religion is bound to die as a society modernizes can be traced back to the Enlightenment thinkers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. You must have encountered in your other classes the philosophical ideas of Kant, Descartes Feuerbach, Freud, and Hume, for example. In different ways, they believed that religions transcendental character was fast becoming irrelevant and even untenable in view of the positivist or evidence-based logic of science. (We can discern from their writings that what they generally observed is the weakening significance of religion to social institutions and the life of individuals.Early SociologistsAlthough they were observing the same phenomenon, their attitudes toward religious decline were varied. As a discipline of the Enlightenment, sociology could be expected to actively entertain the removal of religion Indeed, August Comte, the father of sociology argued that history has arrived at a positive stage whose empirical-scientific paradigm replaces theology and metaphysics As an Enlightenment thinker, Comte celebrated the looming death of religion as he also saw the key role of sociologists in shaping the secular future of society (Furseth and Repstad 2007) In this manner, sociology was envisioned to be in opposition to theology (Wilson 1985) Karl Marx, could also be said to have adoptes a militant posture against religion but with a different motivation.​

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