The secularization debate

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The secularization debate

edited by William H. Swatos, Jr. and Daniel V.A. Olson

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : Co-published with the Association for the Sociology of Religion, c2000

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Introduced to social scientific audiences by Max Weber, the concept of secularization has had a major influence on the way in which religion has been understood in the West since the 1960s, but since the late 1980s both its predictive and descriptive adequacy has been seriously challenged. The Secularization Debate is a collection of essays by prominent American and European scholars that forcefully delineates the critical issues pivotal to the hotly contested concept of secularization and its continued relevance in the postmodern era.

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Chapter 1 Intro. Secularization Theory: The Course of a Concept Chapter 2 Toward an Integrated Perspective of the Processes Related to the Descriptive Concept of Secularization Chapter 3 Secularization, R.I.P. Chapter 4 Secularization in a Context of Advanced Modernity Chapter 5 Secularization from the Perspective of Globalization Chapter 6 Secularization or New Religious Paradigms?

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