Secularization : In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory
ISBN: 9780191612176
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Subjects: Religion; Social Science;

The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization. Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce, elaborates the secularization paradigm and defends it against a wide variety of recent attempts at rebuttal and refutation. Using the best available statistical and qualitative evidence Bruce considers the implications for the


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