Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying -- This debased conditions often attributed to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life. Steven D. Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter backwards: it is not p…
Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying -- This debased conditions often attributed to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life. Steven D. Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter backwards: it is not p…
"'Secularization' sounds simple, a decline in the power of religion. Yet, the history of the term is controversial and multi-faceted; it has been useful to both religious believers and non-believers and has been deployed by scholars to make sense of a variety of aspects of cultu…
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…
