The Future of Religion
Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2514525 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steve Bruce |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 387 |
| Publication date | 1986-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation, Rodney Stark, 2023 |
| Venue | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1386313 |
| OpenAlex | W1970177416 |
| Language | EN |
Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the death of religion as inevitable consequence of science, education, and modern economics. But they were wrong. Stark and Bainbridge set out to explain the survival of religion. Using information derived from numerous surveys, censuses, historical case studies, and ethnographic field expeditions, they chart the full sweep of contemporary religion from the traditional denominations to the most fervent cults. This wealth of information is located within a coherent theoretical framework that examines religion as a social response to human needs, both the general needs shared by all and the desires specific to those who are denied the economic rewards or prestige enjoyed by the privileged. By explaining the forms taken by religions today, Stark and Bainbridge allow us to understand its persistence in a secular age and its prospects for the future
Cult · Political science · Secularization · Sociology · Theology · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces
Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere
Testing theories of secularization and religious belief in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
No princípio era o verbo
Religion, Place, and Identity at the Intersection of Cultural Bricolage
Religiosity in Islam as a Protective Mechanism against Criminal Temptation
Current faces of Maya shamanic renewals in Mexico
Religion, Motherhood, and the Spirit of Capitalism
Novos movimentos religiosos [trad. de Max Luiz Gimenes e Diogo Barbosa Maciel]
What are atheists for? Hypotheses on the functions of non-belief in the evolution of religion
The need to believe
The sleep of reason
Primordialists and constructionists
Believing, belonging, meaning, and religious coping
Existential neuroscience
Ritually faking belief
Dissonance and distress
Religion across Axes of Inequality in the United States
How Religion Shapes Foreign Policy? An Explanatory Model for Non-Western States
The Sociology of Prayer
Accepting the post-colonial challenge
Temple as a site of modern contestations
The Individualist Power and Adaptive New Religious Movement
Ganesa and His Cult in Contemporary Thailand
Conversion and the transformation of culture in the Finnish Pentecostal movement
Life inside a deviant “religious” group
Towards a post-secular political order
Modernity and Personal Identity
The Decline of the Mainline German Churches in Light of the Rise of Late Modern Popular Culture
Secularização, (a) teísmo e pluralismo religioso nas sociedades ocidentais contemporâneas
A visão aérea e a do nadador”
Dossiê A sociologia da religião hoje
Female Converts from Greek Orthodoxy to Islam and their Digital Religious Identity
Civilizational Clash or Balderdash? The Causes of Religious Discrimination in Western and European Christian-Majority Democracies
Religious Flexibilies of Older Yemeni Women in Sanaa
Chaos from Order
Quando a religião sobe ao palco
Efeitos da secularização do Estado, do pluralismo e do mercado religiosos sobre as igrejas pentecostais
A Historical Evaluation of Jamaica Baptists
Teshuvah baskets’ in the Israeli teshuvah market
Capital Possession
Secularization, Religiosity, and the Anthropology of Jewry
Clash of Civilizations or Clash of Religions
Buddhism in America
Laços sem nós
Multirreligiosidad en la Ciudad de México
The ethnic‐religious nexus
The American Mosque in Transition
Ritual, belief and habituation
Religion as makeover
The Pacific Northwest Forest Debate
Belonging without believing
Practice Makes Perfect
Why religious movements succeed or fail
Education, Irreligion, and Non-religion
Why the Jehovah's witnesses grow so rapidly
Theorizing lived religion
Transcendental Meditation, Reiki and Yoga
Beyond the Spiritual Supermarket
Religious Toleration and Organisational Typologies
Globalised Religion
Efforts to Christianize Europe, 400‐2000
Judgmental God image, social embeddedness, and social trust among the highly religious in the United States
New religions and the internet
Creating ‘cult’ typologies
The promised land of the chosen people is not all that distinctive
Outros como nós
The New Holy Clubs
Evolution of Ideals for Women in Mormon Periodicals, 1897-1999
Remembering the Future
Secularization from the Perspective of Globalization
Religion and Spans of Ambiguity on a Danish Island
The Cultural Significance of New Religious Movements
Beyond Christianity
Rethinking Religious Social Action
Who Buys New Age Materials? Exploring Sociodemographic, Religious, Network, and Contextual Correlates of New Age Consumption
Religious Pluralism and US Church Membership
Research
State Welfare Spending and Religiosity
Dynamics of the Religious Economy
A cucumber for a cow
Government Regulation, Social Anomie and Protestant Growth in Latin America
Religious chameleons
Why religion and spirituality are important in human biological research
Religious Critique Discourses as Community Quarrels
Critical Religion and the Sociology of Religion
Disciplinary Conflict in the Study of Religion
Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain”
Gender, Religion, and Correctional Orientations Among a Sample of Juvenile Justice Personnel
Pilgrim Apparition Work
Lay and Professional Views on Tabernacle Location in Catholic Parishes
Constitutional authority and prospects for social justice for high-tension religious communities
Europäische Säkularisierung — ein Sonderweg in die postsäkulare Gesellschaft
Devotion, Damages and Deprogrammers
Sacrifice and Sorting in Clubs
Explaining Religious Market Failure
Discovering the two faces of religious charismatic action – traditional and modern
Religious Pluralism and Crises of Identity
Five concepts of religion
Sociological Rational Choice Theory
The ‘Quasi-Permanent Crisis
| Highly cited | No |
|---|