This week we looked at religion, culture and ‘unchurched spirituality’. Prior to today’s class I was unaware of the ways in which religion and culture are interlinked. Similarly to last week, I felt that learning about the views of different scholars enabled us to look at the topics in more depth from a non-biased approach. This week we could compare the two scholars – Max Weber and Karl Marx – as they both had completely different views about religion. Having previously studied Sociology I have come across these two theorists before when studying social class. Regardless of being familiar with their work I was unaware of their work on religion. I am going to read more of each theorist’s work on religion to prepare me for the exam.

We later looked at ‘unchurched spirituality’. Over several years there has been a great decline in the number of people who would consider themselves to be religious. Unchurched spirituality are forms of spirituality that are not associated with any organised religions. I found this part of the lecture incredibly interesting, however, I also found that unchurched spirituality – in some cases- is very extreme.