Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Subtitle: The One, The Few, and The Many
Contributors: Ted Gerard Jelen (Editor); Clyde Wilcox (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780521659710
Subjects: Comparative Religion; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Political economy; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology; Politics / Current Events; Social Science; Sociology - General; International Relations - General; Political Science / General; Religion and politics
First sentence: Fifty years ago, many social scientists assumed that "religion in the modern world was declining and would likely to continue to decline until its eventual disappearance" (Casanova 1994, p. 25).