What Is Meant by the Idea of 'Belief Without Belonging

question 3

Multiple Choice

What is meant by the idea of 'belief without belonging'?

• A) Religious practice is not declining as fast as religious belief
• B) People are becoming increasingly secular in their beliefs
• C) Rational choice theory underpins a general sense of spirituality rather than religiosity
• D) The perpetuation of a widespread belief in God despite a decline in church-going

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Definitions:

Photosynthesis

The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water.

Cohesion-tension

A hypothesis that explains the process of water movement up plants due to water molecules' cohesive and adhesive properties and the evaporation of water from the leaves.

Xylem

the vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem.

Transpiration

Plant’s loss of water to the atmosphere, mainly through evaporation at leaf stomata.