ISBN:
9781409406587
,
9781409406693
,
140940658X
,
1409406695
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 230 S.
,
24 cm
DDC:
261
Keywords:
Secularism
;
Christianity and politics
;
Christianity 21st century
;
Church and the world
;
Secularism
;
Secularization (Theology)
;
Christianity and politics
;
Violence
;
Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Christianity
;
Forecasting
;
Christentum
;
Säkularisierung
;
Demokratie
;
Religion
;
Gewalttätigkeit
Abstract:
Introduction: Christianity and the world, the religious and the secular -- Secularization and the future of Catholicism and Protestantism -- Master narratives and the future of Christianity -- Pentecostalism: transnational voluntarism in the global religious economy -- Has secularization gone into reverse? -- Religious responses to modes of secularism -- Science and secularization -- An Eastern European pattern of secularization? -- East Germany: the world's most secular society -- Religion and politics; democracy and violence -- The religious and the political -- Christianity, violence and democracy -- Protestantism and democracy -- Appendix: multiple ironies and necessary paradoxes: a review of religion, fanaticism and violence
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Christianity and the world, the religious and the secular -- Secularization and the future of Catholicism and Protestantism -- Master narratives and the future of Christianity -- Pentecostalism: transnational voluntarism in the global religious economy -- Has secularization gone into reverse? -- Religious responses to modes of secularism -- Science and secularization -- An Eastern European pattern of secularization? -- East Germany: the world's most secular society -- Religion and politics; democracy and violence -- The religious and the political -- Christianity, violence and democracy -- Protestantism and democracy -- Appendix: multiple ironies and necessary paradoxes: a review of religion, fanaticism and violence.
Note:
Includes index
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