Apart from a cult system, the society also comprises of Sect, which is defined as a group formed from a dominant religion whereby there has been disagreements over the interpretation of the religion. However, these members are closely connected to the current state of the society and those elements, which are opposed to the public.
Another view that Steve Bruce describes is the process of sects information that “from time to time the church would face revolt”, meaning that there would be protestations from the public as to whether to seek out a radical form of the faith or to protest against the pamp and wealth. In addition, sects share characteristic with religions such as Islam in countries where religious beliefs holds a strong social life. For example in counties such as Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia have differing views despite sharing the same Islam religion.
Postmodernism tends to make an impact on the secularism of society. It is often defined as free combinations of thought in several different orders so it is hard to explain the exact theory of postmodernism. However, the postmodernist’s theorists do believe in the fact that the mainstream religion have been declining over time in the UK because of the increasing impact of people being migrating recently in the country. Additionally they also agrees with the idea that the society has become more secular, referring on the “pick and mix culture”, “decline in meta-narratives and modern religion” and lastly due to the growth of fundamentalism”.
Pick and mix cultural society mainly refers to the city like London, which purely believes on the commercial ideas, in other words, we can say that it is a diluted form of a religion due to multicultural society therefore, in this case religion would be flourishing rather than declining. There has been an increase in people practicing other religions since UK government offers a great place of practice in the organization of secular affairs. However, there are conflicting views on the pick and mix culture in the society since there have been an increasing rate of Meta narrative been declining over time. In addition to this, there has been a fact that proves that Britain is no more a cultural country because of the increasing rate of immigrants; this has lead to the amount of people declining in visiting churches. The Society now believes on being the Belonger not the believers. This can be proves as the recent statistics shows that only six per cent of the total population in the UK visits churches on Sunday. People actually visit church only in case of coronation or weddings.
On the other hand, modernization has played a great role, in making the current society secular. Recently there has been an argument between the atheist and the theist nature of practitioner on the belief of God or the evolutionary theory established by Charles Darwin, which has also created a conflict between religious versus science. People nowadays believes more in the evolutionary theory because of the society being rationalized with modern human evolution such as computers and scientific theory which comes towards the conclusion of science being ahead than the religious beliefs. Due to the impact of modern technology, society is getting busier daily. Therefore, it has been harder for the people to practice the religious activity physically. In opposition to this, there are people who actually mistrust on the scientific knowledge and believe on the power of God which make them follow the theist nature of practitioner.
Nevertheless, the growth of fundamentalism has lead to marginalize the society. A good example for this being 9/11/2007’ incident, that directed people to go back to their core belief because of their uncertainty in the religion. However, according to the liberality of modern Britain, homosexuality is acceptable, despite this going on to its fundamental idea through New Testament or bible homosexuality is still against even in the modern world. Additionally faith schools have been increasing in society in order to make people believe more on religion and faiths.
In conflict to the above view religions have been commercialized lately as people have been taking religion more as a business rather than faiths and beliefs. The absence of the religion in the society may be uncertainty about the applied political rules questioning whether a secular society should exist or not. Moreover, there has been an influence of religion in the public and political areas whereby conflict may arise, and hence resulting in inequality and injustice.
In conclusion, the sociological argument holds views on for and against the contemporary society becoming more secular.
