Sociology, religion and secularization

An orientation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5083075
AutoresDavid Martins (0000-0003-0397-0769), David Martin (0000-0002-2914-8063, Lancaster University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen25
Número4
Páginas295-303
Fecha de publicación1995-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/s0048-721x(05)80016-8
OpenAlexW2049624295
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas18

This personal account of a thirty year long encounter with secularization theory indicates its location in sociological culture and its unchallenged status until the sixties. From that time on, the critique of secularization has come from varied standpoints, but arguably the viable core of the notion lies in pluralism and differentiation rather than rationalization and privatization. It emphasizes the variations in the secularization process according to specific historical context. It notes the continuing secularization of western Europe and takes up the issue raised by Peter Berger of 'Europea Exceptionalism'

Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Exceptionalism · Pluralism (philosophy) · Political science · Politics · Rationalization (economics) · Secularization · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of religion · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies