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Author Bruce, Steve, 1954- author.

Title Secularization : in defence of an unfashionable theory / Steve Bruce
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 243 pages) : illustration
Contents Describing secularization -- Explaining secularization -- Clarifying secularization -- Religion outside the churches -- Contemporary spirituality -- Superstition -- The supply-side alternative -- Unexceptional America -- Secularization elsewhere -- Will conflict reverse secularization?
Summary The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization. Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce, elaborates the secularization paradigm and defends it against a wide variety of recent attempts at rebuttal and refutation. Using the best available statistical and qualitative evidence Bruce considers the implications for the secularization paradigm of the extent to which new religious movements or New Age spiritualities are replacing religion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-235) and index
Notes English
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Subject Secularization (Theology)
Religion and sociology.
sociology of religion.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Religion and sociology
Secularization (Theology)
Secularisatie (maatschappij)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010935041
ISBN 9780191612183
0191612189
9780191612176
0191612170
9786613889645
6613889644
1283577194
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