TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruce,Steve
TI  - Secularization: in defence of an unfashionable theory 
SN  - 9780191612183
AV  - BT83.7 .B78 2011 EB 
U1  - 201.6 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Secularization (Theology)
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Gaia & Earth Energies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Secularisatie (maatschappij)
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-235) and index; Describing secularization -- Explaining secularization -- Clarifying secularization -- Religion outside the churches -- Contemporary spirituality -- Superstition -- The supply-side alternative -- Unexceptional America -- Secularization elsewhere -- Will conflict reverse secularization?
N2  - 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 secularization paradigm of the extent to which new religious movements or New Age spiritualities are replacing religion
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