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Religion and Modernization

By Bruce

Religion and Modernization

By Bruce

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The claim that modern societies are less religious than their predecessors because modernity undermines the plausibility of religion has been almost an orthodoxy, but increasingly this 'secularization thesis' is being challenged on a number of fronts. This collection brings together leading sociologists and historians who share a common interest in advancing our understanding of religious change by clarifying the key elements of the thesis and testing them against appropriate bodies of data. The book begins with an exposition of the thesis by two sociologists and goes on to present and interpret new data on church adherence in the nineteenth century in the USA and Europe, British church membership rates for the last two hundred years, the British 1851 census of church attendance, changes in English Roman Catholicism, and comparisons of American and European religiosity. The collection is completed with a response by Bryan Wilson, for many the chief advocate of the secularization account of religious change. Even where historians and sociologists cannot agree, Religion and Modernization has the great value of clarifying the arguments and pointing the way toward their resolution.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
236
Release Date:
1992-12-31
Publication Date:
2001-08-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019827369X
ISBN13:
9780198273691
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
469 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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