Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Cultural Change

Question:

Which one of the following is not an indicator of Secularisation?

Options:

declining influence of religious organizations in public life 

emergence of science and rationality

celebration of religious festivals in educational institutions 

declining rates of church attendance 

Correct Answer:

emergence of science and rationality

Explanation:

In the modern west, secularisation has usually meant a process of decline in the influence of religion. It has been an assumption of all theorists of modernisation that modern societies become increasingly secular. Indicators of secularisation have referred to levels of involvement with religious organisations (such as rates of church attendance), the social and material influence of religious organisations, and the degree to which people hold religious beliefs. Recent years have, however, seen an unprecedented growth of religious consciousness and conflict world over. Emergence of science and rationality relates to modernisation.