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Secularization (Hardcover)
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Secularization (Hardcover)
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'Secularization' sounds simple, a decline in the power of religion.
Yet, the history of the term is controversial and multi-faceted; it
has been useful to both religious believers and non-believers and
has been deployed by scholars to make sense of a variety of aspects
of cultural and social change. This book will introduce the reader
to this variety and show how secularization bears on the
contemporary politics of religion. Secularization addresses the
sociological classics' ambivalent accounts of the future of
religion, later and more robust sociological claims about religious
decline, and the most influential philosophical secularization
thesis, which says that the dominant ideas of modern thought are in
fact religious ones in a secularized form. The book outlines some
shortcomings of these accounts in the light of historical inquiry
and comparative sociology; examines claims that some religions are
'resistant to secularization'; and analyzes controversies in the
politics of religion, in particular over the relationship between
Christianity and Islam and over the implicitly religious character
of some modern political movements. By giving equal attention to
both sociological and philosophical accounts of secularization, and
equal weight to ideas, institutions, and practices, this book
introduces complicated ideas in a digestible format. It will appeal
to students and scholars interested in making unusual connections
within sociology, anthropology, philosophy, theology, and political
theory.
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