The Role of Religion in Modern Societies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19909972
EditoresDetlef Pollack, Daniel V A Olson (0000-0001-5608-4950)
Año2012
Páginas296
Fecha de publicación2012-08-21
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaRole of Religion in Modern Societies (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203942239
OpenAlexW1499740596
Open LibraryOL34613134M
ISBN9780203942239
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas71

List of Tables List of Graphs Preface Detlef Pollack and Daniel Olson Chapter 1: Introduction: Religious Change in Modern Societies- Perspectives Offered By the Sociology of Religion Detlef Pollack Section One: The secularization theory: Classical assumptions and ramifications Chapter 2: The Continuing Secular Transition David Voas Chapter 3: God, Gaelic and Needlepoint: Religion as a Social Accomplishment Steve Bruce Chapter 4: Religion in Central and Eastern Europe: Was There a Re-awakening After the Breakdown of Communism? Olaf Muller Section Two: The market model: Classical assumptions and ramifications Chapter 5: Quantitative Evidence Favoring and Opposing the Religious Market Model Daniel Olson Chapter 6: Secularization and the State: The Role Government Policy Plays in Determining Social Religiosity Anthony Gill Chapter 7: Unsecular Europe: The Persistence of Religion Andrew Greeley Section 3: The individualization thesis: Classical assumptions and ramifications Chapter 8: From 'Believing without belonging' to 'Vicarious Religion': Understanding the Patterns of Religion in Modern Europe Grace Davie Chapter 9: The Cultural Paradigm: Declines in Belonging and Then Believing Robin Gill Chapter 10: Religious individualization or secularization: An attempt to evaluate the thesis of religious individualization in Eastern and Western Germany Gert Pickel and Detlef Pollack Section Four: New theories on religion and modernity exemplified at the European case Chapter 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 Chapter 12: Secularization Theory and Rational Choice: An integration of macro- and micro-theories of secularization using the example of Switzerland Joerg Stolz Contributors Index

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