Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory
- ISBN-10
- 0191612189
- ISBN-13
- 9780191612183
- Series
- Secularization
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-01-10
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Author
- Steve Bruce
Description
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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Other editions
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- 2011-01-27
- 243 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press
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