However, most people looked badly upon religions outside of their own. One of the most close-minded settlements in America was New England, this was both a good and a bad thing as it brought the settlers closer together, but also pushed outsiders away. The Middle Colonies accepted many more churches, as there was a greater amount of ethnic and religious diversity. This shows the importance of religion by highlighting how it brought people with common religions together to form colonies and gave incentive to people who lived in England to immigrate to America for more religious freedom than they previously had. Colonists were provided with even more reason to practice their religion and continue their work in America for a better, more liberated life.
Many of the new colonies were settled people who faced religious persecution for their beliefs in England. And I think as our country grew, many immigrants were drawn to our country because of its religious freedoms and diversity. Our democracy guarantees that no one can be treated differently because of their religion. Right now, we have a Mormon Mitt Romney running for president and we have people of different faiths in government. Sometimes there is still prejudice but overall all that we have freedom of religion that really is a great tool to help our country be
Yet others would argue that even the media still supports nuclear families and is socializing the next generation into thinking that it is right for example ‘The Simpsons’, so despite the increase in divorce and feminism the nuclear family will remain popular in British society. The third argument as to why the nuclear family is no longer the norm is that many religions support the nuclear family and do not agree with other types such as lone-parent. However secularization is causing less and less religious people so
Assess the view that the growth of religious fundamentalism is a reaction to globalisation The issue of religious fundamentalism has emerged with many associating it with Islamic terrorism. However, as Item a states, fundamentalists are not necessarily violent they may just wish to return the “true path”, the basics of their faith. Some sociologists argue that this is a reaction to globalisation and the uncertain, risk society that people face. However, others argue that changes within a society can also encourage fundamentalism. Giddens argues that fundamentalism is a reaction to globalisation.
The fact that there is a rise of New Religious Movements gaining status and becoming well known in society could be a reason for the view that Sects and Cults are more important than the church as it losing members and attendance is declining. Due to modernity, people are becoming individualistic in terms of that they are doing things to benefit themselves rather than society. An example of this is the young of today who believe in spirituality as it aims to improve the individual. Stark and Bainbridge see sects and cults as promising other-worldly benefits in heaven and in this present life like good health, and because of this people would rather follow these new religious movements than churches because the individuals need of feeling to have a better life not and after death brings them comfort as they would be free from the oppression that they are faced with in society today. However it can be argued that just because the attendance of church members are declining does not mean that other Religious and Spiritual movements are taken their place as statistics show that there is still a lot of people that believe in God and still use the church for events such as baptism, weddings and funerals etc.
Religion is already something that gives people rules, regulations and restrictions to live by; however, divorce is a thing which can determine who you spend the rest of your life with and is so important that everyone should have the choice to make that decision. Many religions allow divorce but even then have loop holes or certain ways of going about getting a divorce. Christianity, in general has a negative outlook on divorce, however Christian denominations vary in their tolerance of it. The Catechism of the Catholic Church strictly forbids divorce, in many cases divorcing your partner and marrying someone else is regarded as committing adultery. This opinion is often held because of the fact that you have consummated your marriage with your partner; hence you must stay with them for the rest of your life.
1) What can you learn from Sources A and B about changing attitudes to crimes involving religious beliefs? Source A shows how during the middle ages how strongly society believed that your religion should be dictated and if you did not believe in the religion that they told you to then there would be severe consequences. However Source B shows that the changes to crimes involving religious beliefs have now become un-acceptable and society has become more equal over periods of time. 2) Transportation as an alternative to execution, c1660. Transportation was introduced because the authorities believed that it was a cheap and easy way to eliminate criminals from the country.
New England, in general, was well-organized and sturdy in comparison to Jamestown’s swampy land and unequipped settlers. Immigrants who settled in the Chesapeake area seemed to have been little affected by religious motives. However, religion influenced many settlers in New England. Unlike Separatists, this Congregationalist man wanted to reform the Church of England rather than abolish it. He and other Congregationalists believed Charles I was more hostile to the Puritans than his father had been.
However, it has already been identified that many people are still religious, they may just not have the time or level of commitment to attend churches or holy places to pray or worship. A advantage of using official statistics such as those from The British Attitudes Survey, is that they can be easily reached by sociologists and allow them to obtain date from large sample sizes that would be very difficult to do by one’s self. Official statistics are also readily available and relatively inexpensive, so researchers can afford to spend a greater amount of time and money analysing the data that has already been collected. The statistics from The British Social Attitudes Survey may show that secularisation is a feature of a Modern European society such as the UK,
It showed to me that people no longer thought of the government’s approval when it came to informing future audiences of the historic events, which sparked some of the beginning of photojournalism. The photos represented more than what was shown; the photos had amore deeper political meaning, such as that although death and destruction of war is depicted there is hope and humanity among the masses. Also the photos of the outdoor mass really struck me because although there is nothing but devastation around them they still feel the necessity of faith, which tells me that the politics of the war must have also been influenced by religion. The photographers wanted to give a certain representation of their country during these dangerous times of war, in which they worked. The photos also show me the sacrifice of preservation, the story of how the photos traveled 6000 miles to finally be discovered and displayed for the entire world to see that these brave photojournalists gave their lives to