Sacred and Secular
Subtitle: Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780521839846
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Religion & Beliefs; Religion and politics; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Religion, Politics & State; History & Theory - General; Sociology of Religion; Political Science / General; Political Science / History & Theory; Religion-Religion, Politics & State; Social Science-Sociology of Religion; General
First sentence: THE SEMINAL SOCIAL thinkers of the nineteenth century - Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud - all believed that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the advent of industrial society.