Lesson 4.2.5.5
4.2.5.5 Religion, secularisation and the spread of religions Quiz: AQA Sociology, Unit 2
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The 20 questions
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According to Peter Berger's later work, what does the term 'desecularisation' describe?
- Religious resurgence
- State control
- Property privatisation
- Institutional decline
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Which sociologist argued that religion has become 'deprivatised' by re-entering public life and political debate?
- David Martin
- Bryan Wilson
- Steve Bruce
- José Casanova
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Which form of Christianity grew most rapidly in the Global South during the twentieth century?
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Pentecostalism
- Anglicanism
- Catholicism
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How does globalisation mainly enable religious ideas to spread across national borders?
- Localised trade
- Strict state censorship
- Transnational migration
- Total isolation
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According to Norris and Inglehart, where is religiosity highest?
- Insecure societies
- Secular democracies
- Highly educated nations
- Wealthy welfare states
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Which global religion is currently experiencing the fastest growth, largely due to demographic fertility rates?
- Buddhism
- Islam
- Judaism
- Sikhism
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What does the term 'religious pluralism' describe within a society?
- Multiple coexisting faiths
- Enforced uniformity
- Single state religion
- Complete secularism
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What is a major critique of the claim that secularisation is a universal global trend?
- Complete religious extinction
- Global religious vitality
- Universal state atheism
- Total institutional collapse
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What term describes social institutions specialising and separating from religious control?
- Desecularisation
- Differentiation
- Re-enchantment
- Syncretism
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How do global religions typically gain acceptance in new cultural regions?
- Local adaptation
- Total cultural erasure
- Enforced language bans
- Complete westernisation
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Which pattern demonstrates that global secularisation is uneven?
- Uniform global decline
- Identical church attendance
- Cross-national variation
- Worldwide religious revival
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Which theory explains why religiosity is higher in countries with poor state welfare provision?
- Existential security
- Disenchantment
- Religious market
- Cultural defence
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According to Norris and Inglehart, what factor leads to lower levels of religiosity?
- High social inequality
- Economic instability
- Low existential security
- High existential security
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Which Christian movement has expanded most rapidly in the Global South in recent decades?
- Quakerism
- Pentecostalism
- Calvinism
- Secular humanism
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Which sociologist argued that Western Europe is characterised by 'believing without belonging'?
- Bryan Wilson
- Max Weber
- Steve Bruce
- Grace Davie
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What is meant by the sociological concept of 'religious switching'?
- Converting religious buildings
- Attending church weekly
- Changing religious affiliation
- Changing prayer times
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Which method is most commonly used to collect comparative data on global religiosity?
- Personal diaries
- Social surveys
- Unstructured interviews
- Participant observation
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Where has the global centre of Christianity predominantly shifted towards over the past century?
- North America
- East Asia
- Western Europe
- Global South
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What term describes migrants using religion to adapt to life in a new country?
- Disenchantment
- Cultural defence
- Cultural transition
- Secularisation
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Which theorists developed 'existential security theory' to explain cross-national variations in religiosity?
- Marx and Engels
- Norris and Inglehart
- Weber and Durkheim
- Stark and Bainbridge
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