Secularization

  • Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory
    By Steve Bruce

    Brouwer, S., Gifford, P., and Rose, S. D., Exporting the American Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism (London: Routledge, 1996). Brown, C. G., 'Did Urbanization Secularize Britain?', Urban History Yearbook (1988), 1–14.

  • Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory
    By Steve Bruce

    6 T. Robbins and P. C. Lucas, 'From “Cults” to New Religious Movements', in J. A. Beckford and N. J. Demerath III (eds), Sage Handbook of the Sociology of Religion (London: Sage, 2007), 230.

  • Secularization
    By Charles Turner

    This book will introduce the reader to this variety and show how secularization bears on the contemporary politics of religion.

  • Secularization: An Analysis at Three Levels
    By Karel Dobbelaere

    This book, written from a sociological perspective, takes up that challenge. The author distinguishes three levels of secularization.

  • Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory
    By Steve Bruce

    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.

  • Secularization: An Essay in Normative Metaphysics
    By Ulrich Steinvorth

    This book answers questions about secularization: Does it dissolve religion, or transform it into faith in a universally valid value?

  • Secularization
    By Charles Turner

    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 ...