The Role of Religion in Modern Societies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Pollack, Detlef; Olson, Daniel V. A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting a thorough understanding of the many ways in which religion interacts with modernization and its debates, respected scholars such as David Voas, Steve Bruce and Anthony Gill examine modern societies across the world in this splendid book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134153824
• Artikelnr.: 38264077

Autorenporträt

Detlef Pollack is Professor of Comparative Sociology of Culture at Europa-Universitat Viadrina, Germany. Daniel V. A. Olson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Religious Change in Modern Societies- Perspectives Offered
By the Sociology of Religion 2. The Continuing Secular Transition 3. God,
Gaelic and Needlepoint: Religion as a Social Accomplishment 4. Religion in
Central and Eastern Europe: Was There a Re-awakening After the Breakdown of
Communism? 5. Quantitative Evidence Favoring and Opposing the Religious
Market Model 6. Secularization and the State: The Role Government Policy
Plays in Determining Social Religiosity 7. Unsecular Europe: The
Persistence of Religion 8. From 'Believing without Belonging' to 'Vicarious
Religion': Understanding the Patterns of Religion in Modern Europe 9. The
Cultural Paradigm: Declines in Belonging and Then Believing 10. Religious
Individualization or Secularization: An Attempt to Evaluate the Thesis of
Religious Individualization in Eastern and Western Germany 11. Religion and
Science or Religion versus Science? About the Social Construction of the
Science-Religion-Antagonism in the German Democratic Republic and its
Lasting Consequences 12. Secularization Theory and Rational Choice: An
Integration of Macro- and Micro-Theories of Secularization using the
Example of Switzerland