num_pages: 348
description: August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the emergence of industrial society. Their belief that religion was dying became conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century. However, this analysis reveals that the traditional secularization thesis needs updating now. Religion has not disappeared and is unlikely to do so, even though secularization has had a surprisingly powerful negative impact on human fertility rates.
language: English
title: Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide
titlecomplete: Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
genres: Religion, Politics, Political Science, Atheism, Nonfiction, Sociology
ratings_count: 96
publisher: Cambridge University Press