Who needs religion? | Andrew Copson and Linda Woodhead on the rise of the non-religious
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- Linda Woodhead specialises in the religious studies and sociology of religion. She was appointed F.D. Maurice Professor at King’s College London in 2022, where she is also Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. Previously she was Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University. She is best known for her work on religious change since the 1980s, and for initiating public debates about religion and belief. She has been described by Matthew Taylor, head of the Royal Society of Arts, as 'one of the world's leading experts on religion'.
Linda co-founded the Westminster Faith Debates with former Home Secretary Charles Clarke in 2011. The debates were originally created to publicise findings from the Religion and Society programme, but have since become an annual series. They bring researchers into conversation with prominent figures in public life and have included former Prime Minister Tony Blair, ethnologist, author, and Humanists UK patron Richard Dawkins, and the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. The debates have been covered by BBC Radio, LBC, the Guardian, Independent, The Times, the Evening Standard and other UK and international media.
What a great discussion. Many thanks, from San Diego, California.
Given the information that if you have non religious parents that their children are 95% likely to also be non religious I’d be interested to find out the figure if one parent is religious and one not.
I’m non religious and my mum is non-religious but my dad is a Christian who goes to church most Sundays.
Added factor that they divorced when I was 4 of course but my step dad is a less devout believer (doesn’t go to church but believes in a god) and my step-mum is a church going Christian.
Now I have kids and I’m married to someone who describes themself as a Christian who goes to church at Christmas and Easter sometimes.
We let my daughter attend a C of E primary school. Also, parents used to let the children attend an activity camp (free so useful for child care). The total experience turned my daughter off religion. She is a healthy adult.
Same here.
Every time Linda said “nones” I heard “nuns” which makes the very conversation very confusing 😂
Nah. You just wanted an audience so you decided to make that comment. It wasn’t just you who heard nuns when nones was said. Nothing unique or original happening there. It is pure banality.
@@skiphoffenflaven8004 what a weird thing for you to say. I always like to comment if I can because engagement with videos helps the creator in the algorithm.
And if I’ve enjoyed their video obviously I’d like to help out. And as that was something I had heard and I found it amusing that I’d heard it I thought I’d post that. 🤷♂️
But hey…I guess your comment on my comment has also helped the engagement of the video as has this extra one of mine so… 🤷♂️
Society has become self, self, self. And I blame the government, media lies.
It always gad been.
Explain
Of course there's nothing unduly 'selfish' about a humanist worldview. Orwell had a good quote about why the humanist view of life is self-centred than the Christian one (in his opinion anyway).
This polarisation can be dangerous, perhapse not now, but.......
It’s always there. All the time.
My parents never suggested there was a God, never mentioned JC to me and I was brought up in my early years in London, so religion never crossed my mind and I never will be a believer and I'm now seventy-two years old. I don't know anyone who is a Christian now I live in Oz.
My parents didn't either, but I had religion shoved down my throat in school, especially in primary schools, and I went to normal state schools. It was all God this and God that in the daily morning assembly, and we couldn't go home after the school day without a collective prayer said. Even history and geography lessons were Christianised. We were taught to see the ancient Britons as primitive savages who worshipped the sun and moon until the Romans invaded and brought 'civlisation', and when St Augustine brought Christianity, it was 'civilised' even more when in fact Christianity reached the British Isles earlier and was seen as a trendy cult and mixed in with paganism as pagans were open to different faiths. All St Augustine did was bring the Roman church, forced it on the entire population, and banned paganism and Celtic Christianity.
We were taught creationism in morning assemblies and religious education lessons starting from primary school but learned about evolution in biology lessons starting in secondary schools. Fortunately, in my last school, it was more secular, with lip service paid to religion.
Fortunately, my mother didn't send my brother and I to Sunday School as she thought it would be hypocritical to do so when she didn't attend church. She hadn't been brought up a Christian though dabbled in it in her late teens. The brainwashing runs deep even in those brought up to attend church but no longer attend it themselves. They send their children to faith schools or Sunday School to give them a moral framework but they do this as they can't imagine a childhood without church going.
@@lemsip207 First and foremost, I have to apologize for laughing all the way through what you've written. I feel sorry for what you have had to put up with early in life.
The only thing I remember about religion at my school was looking sideways at school mates when we were about five and wondering what the teacher was doing when she was thanking the Lord for our food. We were all thinking the same thing. She's nuts.😄😆😂. We probably thought she was talking to herself. I have to say though, I don't recall any other religious stuff after that in our school. I suppose we were lucky.
@toni4729 I didn't like it at first and cringed in morning assemblies while singing hymns and switched off when we bowed our heads in silence for prayer said by the headmaster but by the time I had left school, I was pretty brainwashed. Morning assembly unless secular and inclusive is a horrible way to start the school day.
I had a close friend who was in the Salvation Army and would talk about the fun every Monday she had at the weekend with the junior church. I took the attitude "if you can't beat them, join them," so I went along on Sunday afternoon. She went along to the hall two or three times every Sunday, but I went along only in the afternoons. I did like the brass band music in the main service after junior church, but after a year, I decided I wasn't committed enough to become a junior soldier, so I left. I was the only one at junior church not wearing the uniform, which was like a school uniform. They put the full uniform in at 15. I did have some fun times, though, such as a trip to the seaside and helping out at a jumble sale, but there should be the opportunity for the same in secular organisations.
When younger than that, I attended a youth club in a church hall, and then the vicar kicked everyone out unless they started attending his church. There needs to be more council run community centres to host youth clubs. Had there been a local Woodcraft Folk group near me, I would have joined that instead of the Girl Guides. More fun, mixed sex and no uniform apart from practical clothing.
@@toni4729When I was 9 or 10 there was a Treasure Tent set up near where I lived to evangelise children in the evening for a week or two by luring them in with free sweets, games with prizes for the winners and entertainment. It was either set up in the school grounds or on an open green space on the new council estate there as it was mostly the children from there being targeted the most.
My mother didn't want me to go as she knew it was religious and heavily evangelical. She had to keep me at home to prevent me from being lured there by other children from the local park. Most of the boys lured in there would not have been brainwashed but most of the girls were.
There was no safeguarding of children then so children didn't have to bring a parent or guardian or letter from them to get inside. I think the 'befriending' evangelism in my class started after that. I was targeted. They wanted to reach the 'unchurched' in particular.