The Secularization Debate

Introduced to social scientific audiences by Max Weber, the concept of secularization has had a major influence on the way in which religion has been understood in the West since the 1960s, but since the late 1980s both its predictive and descriptive adequacy has been seriously challenged. The Secularization Debate is a collection of essays by prominent American and European scholars that forcefully delineates the critical issues pivotal to the hotly contested concept of secularization and its continued relevance in the postmodern era.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Intro. Secularization Theory: The Course of a Concept Chapter 2 Toward an Integrated Perspective of the Processes Related to the Descriptive Concept of Secularization Chapter 3 Secularization, R.I.P. Chapter 4 Secularization in a Context of Advanced Modernity Chapter 5 Secularization from the Perspective of Globalization Chapter 6 Secularization or New Religious Paradigms?

About the author

By William H. Swatos, Jr. and Daniel V. A. Olson - Contributions by Peter Beyer; William H. Swatos; Jr.-Association for the Sociology of Religionand Liliane Voyé-Université Catholique de Louvain and Belgique

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Olson, Daniel V a Olson, Olson Daniel V. A., Jr. Swatos, William Swatos, William H Swatos
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2000
• EAN: 9780742507616
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-0761-6
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 253 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Prose: non-fiction, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Biography and non-fiction prose