Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory
Categories: Books, History, World

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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Language: English
File size: 571 KB
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: January 10, 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0199654123
Edition: Reprint
subtitle: Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition
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