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The role of religion in modern societies / edited by Detlef Pollack and Daniel V.A. Olson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge advances in sociology ; 31.Publisher: New York : Routledge, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415397049
  • 9780415397049
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.6 22
LOC classification:
  • BL60 .R66 2008
Contents:
Introduction: Religious change in modern societies -- perspectives offered by the sociology of religion / Detlef Pollack -- The continuing secular transition / David Voas -- God, Gaelic, and needlepoint : religion as a social accomplishment / Steve Bruce -- Religion in Central and Eastern Europe : was there a re-awakening after the breakdown of communism? / Olaf Müller -- Quantitative evidence favoring and opposing the religious economies model / Daniel V.A. Olson -- Secularization and the state : the role government policy plays in determining social religiosity / Anthony Gill -- Unsecular Europe : the persistence of religion / Andrew Greeley -- From believing without belonging to vicarious religion : understanding the patterns of religion in modern Europe / Grace Davie -- The cultural paradigm : declines in belonging and then believing / Robin Gill -- Religious individualization or secularization : an attempt to evaluate the thesis of religious individualization in Eastern and Western Germany / Detlef Pollack and Gert Pickel -- 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 -- Secularization theory and rational choice : an integration of macro- and micro-theories of secularization using the example of Switzerland / Jörg Stolz.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Religious change in modern societies -- perspectives offered by the sociology of religion / Detlef Pollack -- The continuing secular transition / David Voas -- God, Gaelic, and needlepoint : religion as a social accomplishment / Steve Bruce -- Religion in Central and Eastern Europe : was there a re-awakening after the breakdown of communism? / Olaf Müller -- Quantitative evidence favoring and opposing the religious economies model / Daniel V.A. Olson -- Secularization and the state : the role government policy plays in determining social religiosity / Anthony Gill -- Unsecular Europe : the persistence of religion / Andrew Greeley -- From believing without belonging to vicarious religion : understanding the patterns of religion in modern Europe / Grace Davie -- The cultural paradigm : declines in belonging and then believing / Robin Gill -- Religious individualization or secularization : an attempt to evaluate the thesis of religious individualization in Eastern and Western Germany / Detlef Pollack and Gert Pickel -- 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 -- Secularization theory and rational choice : an integration of macro- and micro-theories of secularization using the example of Switzerland / Jörg Stolz.

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