- Hervieu-Leger argues that there has been a dramatic decline of institutional religion
- This is partly because of what she calls ‘cultural amnesia’, or a loss of collective memory
- Children have been taught for centuries about religion in both extended family and parish church
- However now we have largely lost the religion that used to be handed down as few parents teach about religion
- Parents now tend to let their children decide for themselves what to believe
- she agrees that religion itself hasn’t disappeared
- instead she argues individual consumerism has replaced collective tradition
- People now feel that they have a choice as the consumers of religion -> they have become spiritual shoppers
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