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Informationen zum Autor Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion! concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state! religious authority and electronic information! religious! consumerism and youth cultures! human rights and religion! the human body! medical change! and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals. Klappentext Secularization traces the decline of religion and the rise of secular belief systems. But it also touches on the transition from traditional to modern systems of organization, the replacement of metaphysical beliefs with science, the transition from community to association and much more besides. The debate about secularism and secularization has become a central issue in politics, public policy and international affairs. There is a long history of thinking about the religious and the secular, but the modern debate has special features and a great urgency mainly as a result of fears about religious fundamentalism, religious revival, political Islam and religious nationalism. Volume One explores the history and meaning of key terms: secular, secularism, secularity, secularization and laicity. It is primarily concerned with the philosophy and theology of the secular and examines the evolution of the debate from St Augustine's two cities to contemporary writings and is not confined to Christian debate. Volume Two deals with the sociology of secularization and contains the classic statements by sociologists such as Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Bryan Wilson, David Martin, and Thomas Luckmann. Volume Three considers American exceptionalism. Much the debate in sociology has centred on the question of America's differences from secular Europe. Religion and politics have been significantly interconnected in American history. America is a very special but influential case of secularization and merits a separate volume. Volume Four involves the comparative sociology of modern religious revivalism and the notion that we are in a post-secular society. The manifestations of religious revival in post-secular societies are truly global. This volume looks at the revival of world religions and popular religions such as spirit possession in the post-communist societies. Zusammenfassung This collection explores the wide range of concepts surroundng secularization! a truly central issue in politics! public policy and international affairs. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME ONE: DEFINING SECULARIZATION: THE SECULAR IN HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Religious Aspects of Modernization in Turkey and Japan - Robert N. Bellah Civil Religion and Secularization: Ideological revitalization in post-revolutionary communist systems - Timothy W. Luke Secularization in the Netherlands - Frank J. Lechner Tranformative Constitutionalism and the Case of Religion: Defending the moderate hegemony of liberalism - Stephen Macedo Richard Hooker and American Religious Liberty - Wendy Dackson The Reconstruction of Religious Arenas in the Framework of "Multiple Modernities" - Shmuel N. Eisenstadt Historicizing the Secularization Debate: Church, state, and society in late medieval and early modern Europe, ca. 1300 to 1700 - Philip S. Gorski The Crisis of Indian Secularism - Sumit Ganguly A Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Church-State Relations in Europe - John T.S. Madeley The Enlightenment, Communism, and Political Religion: Reflections on a misleading trajectory - Richard Shorten Under God but Not the...
