ISBN:
9780415397049
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (283 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version The Role of Religion in Modern Societies
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Does modernization lead to the decline of religion? This question lies at the centre of a key debate in the sociology of religion. During the past decade American scholars, using primarily American data, have dominated this debate and have made a strong case that the answer to this question is no. Recently, however, a new crop of European scholars, working with new sources of European data, have uncovered evidence that points toward an affirmitive answer. This volume pays special attention to these trends and developments to provide the reader with a more well-rounded understand
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; The Role of Religion in Modern Societies; Copyright Page; Contents; Tables; Figures; Preface; 1. Introduction: Religious Change in Modern Societies-Perspectives Offered by the Sociology of Religion: Detlef Pollack; Section 1: Secularization Theory: Classical Assumptions and Ramifications; 2. The Continuing Secular Transition: David Voas; 3. God, Gaelic, and Needlepoint: Religion as a Social Accomplishment: Steve Bruce; 4. Religion in Central and Eastern Europe: Was There a Re-Awakening after the Breakdown of Communism?: Olaf Müller
Description / Table of Contents:
Section 2: The Market Model: Classical Assumptions and Ramifications5. Quantitative Evidence Favoring and Opposing the Religious Economies Model: Daniel V.A. Olson; 6. Secularization and the State: The Role Government Policy Plays in Determining Social Religiosity: Anthony Gill; 7. Unsecular Europe: The Persistence of Religion: Andrew Greeley; Section 3: The Individualization Thesis: Classical Assumptions and Ramifications; 8. From Believing without Belonging to Vicarious Religion: Understanding the Patterns of Religion in Modern Europe: Grace Davie
Description / Table of Contents:
9. The Cultural Paradigm: Declines in Belonging and Then Believing: Robin Gill10. Religious Individualization or Secularization: An Attempt to Evaluate the Thesis of Religious Individualization in Eastern and Western Germany: Detlef Pollack and Gert Pickel; Section 4: New Theories on Religion and Modernity Exemplified at the European Case; 11. Religion and Science or Religion versus Science?: About the Social Construction of the Science-Religion-Antagonism in the German Democratic Republic and Its Lasting Consequences: Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
Description / Table of Contents:
12. Secularization Theory and Rational Choice: An Integration of Macro- and Micro-Theories of Secularization Using the Example of Switzerland: Jörg StolzContributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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