On Secularization

Author : Charles Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317625382
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secularization written by Charles Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Secularization’ sounds simple, a decline in the power of religion. Yet, the history of the term is controversial and multi-faceted; it has been useful to both religious believers and non-believers and has been deployed by scholars to make sense of a variety of aspects of cultural and social change. This book will introduce the reader to this variety and show how secularization bears on the contemporary politics of religion. Secularization addresses the sociological classics’ ambivalent accounts of the future of religion, later and more robust sociological claims about religious decline, and the most influential philosophical secularization thesis, which says that the dominant ideas of modern thought are in fact religious ones in a secularized form. The book outlines some shortcomings of these accounts in the light of historical inquiry and comparative sociology; examines claims that some religions are ‘resistant to secularization’; and analyzes controversies in the politics of religion, in particular over the relationship between Christianity and Islam and over the implicitly religious character of some modern political movements. By giving equal attention to both sociological and philosophical accounts of secularization, and equal weight to ideas, institutions, and practices, this book introduces complicated ideas in a digestible format. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in making unusual connections within sociology, anthropology, philosophy, theology, and political theory.

Author : David Martin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351913816
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Secularization written by David Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Secularization' has been hotly debated since it was first subjected to critical attention in the mid-sixties by David Martin, before he sketched a 'General Theory' in 1969. 'On Secularization' presents David Martin's reassessment of the key issues: with particular regard to the special situation of religion in Western Europe, and questions in the global context including Pentecostalism in Latin America and Africa. Concluding with examinations of Pluralism, Christian Language, and Christianity and Politics, this book offers students and other readers of social theory and sociology of religion an invaluable reappraisal of Christianity and Secularization. It represents the most comprehensive sociology of contemporary Christianity, set in historical depth.

Author : Steve Bruce
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191612170
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secularization written by Steve Bruce and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Vincent P. Pecora
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226653129
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secularization and Cultural Criticism written by Vincent P. Pecora and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Secularization and Cultural Criticism' examines the responses of a wide range of thinkers to illustrate exactly why the problem of secularisation in the study of society and culture should matter once again.

Author : C. John Sommerville
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360753
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secularization of Early Modern England written by C. John Sommerville and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study overcomes the ambiguity and daunting scale of the subject of secularization by using the insights of anthropology and sociology, and by examining an earlier period than usually considered. Concentrating not only on a decline of religious belief, which is the last aspect of secularization, this study shows that a transformation of England's cultural grammar had to precede that loosening of belief, and that this was largely accomplished between 1500 and 1700. Only when definitions of space and time changed and language and technology were transformed (as well as art and play) could a secular world-view be sustained. As aspects of daily life became divorced from religious values and controls, religious culture was supplanted by religious faith, a reasoned, rather than an unquestioned, belief in the supernatural. Sommerville shows that this process was more political and theological than economic or social.

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674986911
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Secular Age written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Author : David Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780061361791
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General Theory of Secularization written by David Martin and published by . This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hans Joas
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802079351
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secularization and the World Religions written by Hans Joas and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of religion, its contemporary and future significance and its role in society and state is currently perceived as an urgent one by many and is widely discussed within the public sphere. But it has also long been one of the core topics of the historically oriented social sciences. The immense stock of knowledge furnished by the history of religion and religious studies, theology, sociology and history has to be introduced into the public conscience today. This can promote greater awareness of the contemporary global religious situation and its links with politics and economics and counter rash syntheses such as the “clash of civilizations”. This volume is concerned with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization. The first part deals with major religious traditions and their explicit or implicit ideas about the individual, social and political order. The second part gives an overview of the religious situation in important geographical areas. Additional contributions analyze the legal organization of the relationship between state and religion in a global perspective and the role of the natural sciences in the process of secularization. The contributors are internationally renowned scholars like Winfried Brugger, José Casanova, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Hans Joas, Hans G. Kippenberg, Gudrun Krämer, David Martin, Eckart Otto and Rudolf Wagner.

Author : Christian Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520235614
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secular Revolution written by Christian Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-06-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents a radical rethinking of the secularization of American public life.

Author : Gary Gabor
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443811734
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Secularization written by Gary Gabor and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Secularization: Philosophy and the Prophecy of a Secular Age provides a philosophical appraisal of secularization in light of the recent re-emergence of religion in the public sphere. It explores the adequacy of classical theories of secularization, and, rooted in historical and conceptual analysis, what might be offered in their place today. Responding to the once dominant theories of a global, world-historical emancipation from an inherited religious past to a modern secular age, the volume also considers the extent to which philosophy itself has inspired and nourished such prophecies. As a result, a more sophisticated view of secularization emerges, both more interesting and complex than the simple linear process it is often thought to be. From the conceptual origins of secularity in the writings of Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas to the contemporary secularization theories of Hans Blumenberg, Marcel Gauchet, and Charles Taylor, Rethinking Secularization considers philosophy’s own relationship to the concept of secularization. It reflects the trend in contemporary philosophy to rethink the relation between religion and modernity, and includes systematic contributions to the debate. The book would appeal to a wide range of readers in philosophy, sociology, religious studies, and intellectual history.