The role of religion in modern societies
By: edited by Detlef Pollack and Daniel Olson.
Contributors: Pollack, Detlef, 1955-; Olson, Daniel V. A., 1953-
Series: Routledge advances in sociology -- 31
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415397049
Subjects: Religion and sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Religious change in modern societies : perspectives offered by the sociology of religion / Detlef Pollack; title: The continuing secular transition / David Voas; title: God, Gaelic, and needlepoint : religion as a social accomplishment / Steve Bruce; title: Religion in Central and Eastern Europe : was there a re-awakening after the breakdown of communism? / Olaf Müller; title: Quantitative evidence favoring and opposing the religious market model / Daniel V. A. Olson; title: Secularization and the state : the role government policy plays in determining social religiosity / Anthony Gill; title: Unsecular Europe : the persistence of religion / Andrew Greeley; title: From "believing without belonging" to "vicarious religion" : understanding the patterns of religion in modern Europe / Grace Davie; title: The cultural paradigm : declines in belonging and then believing / Robin Gill; title: Religious individualization or secularization : an attempt to evaluate the thesis of religious individualization in Eastern and Western Germany / Gert Pickel and Detlef Pollack; title: Religion and science or religion versus science? : about the social construction of the science-religion-antagonism in the German Democratic Republic and its lasting consequences / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr; title: Secularization theory and rational choice : an integration of macro- and micro-theories of secularization using the example of Switzerland / Jörg Stolz.