The future of Christianity : reflections on violence and democracy religion and secularisation Introduction: Christianity and the world the religious and the secular Secularization and the future of Catholicism and Protestantism Master narratives and the future of Christianity Pentecostalism: transnational voluntarism in the global religious economy Has secularization gone into reverse Religious responses to modes of secularism Science and secularization An Eastern European pattern of secularization East Germany: the worlds most secular society Religion and politics; democracy and violence The religious and the political Christianity violence and democracy Protestantism and democracy Appendix: multiple ironies and necessary paradoxes: a review of religion fanaticism and violence