The radical process of religious change in eastern Germany poses a real challenge to social researchers. Common explanations view either the socialist past or larger scale processes of modernization to be the cause of eastern German secularization, but fail to address historical…
The most common explanations view either the socialist past or larger scale processes of modernization to be the cause of eastern German secularization. The volume attempts to discover historically variable reconfigurations of religion and the secular at the local level.
Secularization and Its Discontents provides an overview of major current debates in the sociology of religion, exploring changing patterns of religious practice in the West during the past 150 years. --from publisher description
Secularization and Its Discontents
Secularization and Its Discontents<lt;lt;/em>gt;gt; provides an illuminating overview of major current debates in the sociology of religion, exploring changing patterns of religious practice in the West during the past 150 years. Examining classical secularization theory as well…
Secularization and Its Discontents provides an overview of major current debates in the sociology of religion, exploring changing patterns of religious practice in the West during the past 150 years. --from publisher description.
Secularization and€Its Discontents €provides an illuminating overview of major current debates in the sociology of religion, exploring changing patterns of religious practice in the West during the past 150 years. Examining classical secularization theory as well as modified ver…
& Quot;This book develops a theory of secularization and existential security, demonstrating that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during the past fifty years, but also that the world as a whole now has …