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[aero135]

I have a studies of religion assesment and was wanting some help on how to answer these questions which will be answered in class!

1) Account for the changes in religious adherence away from Christinaity YES IN AUSTRALIA!

2) Analyse the contribution of the 14th Dalai Lama on Buddhism

 

[Brontecat]

Britain along with other western European countries has seen a marked decrease in allegiance to traditional forms of Christianity during the latter part of the 20th century. Although church attendance remains relatively high among older people compared with younger age groups, there has been little or no investigation into the stability or change of people's religious belief and practice with increasing age. This paper present findings on these issues from the Southampton Ageing Project, which from 1977–78 to 2002 followed 342 people almost all of whom had had an entirely Christian religious education and all of whom at the outset were aged 65 or more years. Although religion has continued to have considerable meaning in the lives of up to one-half of the participants, approximately one-quarter of the sample expressed a declining commitment to a religious faith and to church membership. The participants' accounts of their recent life experiences, for example following bereavement, give instances of disappointment with the support that they received from institutional religion and show that this was a factor in their declining adherence. They also provide suggestions for further investigation into the origin of this decline. The conclusion argues that the study of older people's religious and spiritual beliefs and practice should be integrated with the investigation of self and identity and of sources of existential meaning in later life.



is the above what you mean for question 1? - i found this online

 

[L]

google you think i should do whatever when oh but

 

[Brontecat]

for question 2 heres about him and what he did The 14th Dalai Lama - Biography

all u have to do now is analyse (udentify components and the relation between them; draw out and relate implications)

 

[Brontecat]

google you think i should do whatever when oh but

what exactly do ur words mean? there is no gramatic sense to them

 

[lyounamu]

I have a studies of religion assesment and was wanting some help on how to answer these questions which will be answered in class!

1) Account for the changes in religious adherence away from Christinaity

2) Analyse the contribution of the 14th Dalai Lama on Buddhism

For the q1, is it specifically on Australia?

If that's the case, this is something that you may consider:

1. Duw to the abolition of the White Australia Policy -> Asian immigrants coming to Australia hence bringing their own religion - > increase in Buddhists, Muslims and etc.
2. Changing social view -> increase in the number of atheists

There are two main points that you may consider.

For Q2, I didn't do Buddhism so I wouldn't know, sorry about that. I really suggest you use Google btw

Britain along with other western European countries has seen a marked decrease in allegiance to traditional forms of Christianity during the latter part of the 20th century. Although church attendance remains relatively high among older people compared with younger age groups, there has been little or no investigation into the stability or change of people's religious belief and practice with increasing age. This paper present findings on these issues from the Southampton Ageing Project, which from 1977–78 to 2002 followed 342 people almost all of whom had had an entirely Christian religious education and all of whom at the outset were aged 65 or more years. Although religion has continued to have considerable meaning in the lives of up to one-half of the participants, approximately one-quarter of the sample expressed a declining commitment to a religious faith and to church membership. The participants' accounts of their recent life experiences, for example following bereavement, give instances of disappointment with the support that they received from institutional religion and show that this was a factor in their declining adherence. They also provide suggestions for further investigation into the origin of this decline. The conclusion argues that the study of older people's religious and spiritual beliefs and practice should be integrated with the investigation of self and identity and of sources of existential meaning in later life.



is the above what you mean for question 1? - i found this online

Hm, that doesn't really answer the question. You were supposed to give reasons why the Christianity's facing decline in adherents in terms of percentage (number has certainly increased due to population increase but the percentage has definitely fallen by a fair bit)

 

[Brontecat]

Hm, that doesn't really answer the question. You were supposed to give reasons why the Christianity's facing decline in adherents in terms of percentage (number has certainly increased due to population increase but the percentage has definitely fallen by a fair bit)

with the above in mind maybe the following could be considered for question 1

mention the fact that christianity is not a very dynamic religion and as a result often fails to entice young people into the church or the good old what has God done for us? those people who believe that the things such as bushfires and the economic crisis wouldnt happen if there really was a God.