Secularization thesis – Description and analysis : The connection between increased education, economy and secularization

Aim: Describe and analyze two of the arguments that supports the secularization theory that Steve Bruce use in his book “God is Dead”. Thesis questions: What argument does Bruce put forth to support the secularization theory? How does Bruce argument for the connection between level of education and secularization and the connection with economic growth and secularization? What empirical enquiries supports that increased education and economy leads towards secularization? What strenghts and weeknesses does these empirical enquiries that supports Bruce argumentation have? How can Bruce pro-secularization argumentation be further developed? Method: Argumentation analysis with foundation in Bruce’s book “God is Dead”. Results: The secularization thesis is comprehensive, it exist much material and arguments both for and against the thesis. But generally speaking if you look about what happens with a population when they get more prosperity and education is that they get more secularized, even though not everything goes straight from religiosity to secularization like the country USA is a living example of. Keywords: Secularization, secularization thesis, religion and modernity