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Secularization : in defence of an unfashionable theory / Steve Bruce.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (ix, 243 pages) : illustrationContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780191612183
  • 0191612189
  • 9780191612176
  • 0191612170
  • 9786613889645
  • 6613889644
  • 1283577194
  • 9781283577199
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Secularization : In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory.DDC classification:
  • 201.6
LOC classification:
  • BT83.7 .B78 2011 EB
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.05
Online resources:
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)475856

Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-235) and index.

Print version record.

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?

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.

English.