Secular Society/Religious Population
Our Tacit Rules for Using the Term 'Secularization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2515541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C John Sommerville (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 249 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1387524 |
| OpenAlex | W2153348282 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 14 |
The increasing discussion of secularization is hampered by several ambiguities. What we need is not some new, academic definition, but to recognize that we already adopt several different meanings for the word, depending on whether we are referring to a society, a population, an institution, an activity, or a mentality. Therefore, treating secularization as a general decline of religion is hardly meaningful. This recognition will make it possible to make sense of the fact that Christianity and secularization have sometimes increased together. Finally, the magnitude of the subject is vastly increased when it is viewed from the far side of a historical divide which seems real enough, despite measures of continuing religiosity
Physics · Political science · Population · Secularization · Sociology · Term (time) · Demography · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious studies
Testing theories of secularization and religious belief in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Can Rising Rates of Church Participation Be a Consequence of Secularization
The Lure of Heresy
Post-Christian, Post-Christendom, and Post-Modern Europe
Judicial Conservatism and Protestant Faith
The Persistence of Faith Among Nonheterosexual Christians
Modern/charismatic Pentecostalism as a form of ‘religious’ secularisation in Africa
The First Jewish Environmentalist
Batı’da Sekülerlik ve Türkiye Müslümanlığının Seküler İçerimleri
Public religious embodiment
The evolution of secularization
The big carrot
Marriage Law and the Reformation
Perceptions of South African Emerging Adult FET College Students on Sexual Practices in Relation to Religion
The Organisation of Prayer Rooms in Educational Institutions in Denmark – Moderate Secularism Between Perception and Practice
Privatized religiosity revisited
The Role of Religiousness and Gender in Sexuality Among Mexican Adolescents
Approval of Euthanasia
One Person's Apostate is Another Person's Convert”
Beyond Positivism
Rethinking the role of church in a socio‐democratic welfare state
The Turkish Constitutional Court, laicism and the headscarf issue
The Secular University and Its Critics
The Relation Between Sexual Behavior and Religiosity Subtypes
Post-secular Society
In defence of the nation
The links between basic human values and political secularism
A Short Scale for Measuring Political Secularism
Secularism, Religion, and Political Choice in the United States
Religiosity and Trust in Religious Institutions
What Is “Postsecular” About Global Political Discourse
Prayers of the people
Post-secularism Marginalizes the University
Minjung Theology in Contemporary Korea
Two Centuries of Christianity in America
Reversing the Curse
Determinants of Disaffiliation
Loved the Wedding, Invite Me to the Marriage
Understanding the Diversity of Catholic Higher Education
Situating the 'Secular
Religion And Modernization
The Secularization of Early Modern England
The invisible religion
Religion and Modernization
Au sujet de la déchristianisation
Secularization Theories and Sociological Paradigms
Secularization on Trial
The Secularization Paradigm
The Secularization of Values
The Process of Secularization
The Concept of Secularization in Empirical Research
Speech Acts
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2024 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |