The Secularization Debate

by William H. Swatos, Jr., Daniel V. A. Olson, Peter Beyer University of Ottawa (Contribution by), William H. Swatos CNRS-EPHER, Stark-University of Washington (Contribution by), Jr.-Association for the Sociology of Religionand Liliane Voyé-Université Catholique de Louvain (Contribution by)

Overview

Introduced to social scientific audiences by Max Weber, the concept of secularization has had a major influence on the way in which religion has been understood in the West since the 1960s, but since the late 1980s both its predictive and descriptive adequacy has been seriously challenged. The Secularization Debate is a collection of essays by prominent American and European scholars that forcefully delineates the critical issues pivotal to the hotly contested concept of secularization and its continued relevance in the postmodern era.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742507616
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/30/2000
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	7.08(w) x 9.96(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

William H. Swatos, Jr., is the executive officer of the Association for the Sociology of Religion and the Religious Research Association.
Daniel V. A. Olson is associate professor of sociology at Indiana University, South Bend.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Intro. Secularization Theory: The Course of a Concept Chapter 2 Toward an Integrated Perspective of the Processes Related to the Descriptive Concept of Secularization Chapter 3 Secularization, R.I.P. Chapter 4 Secularization in a Context of Advanced Modernity Chapter 5 Secularization from the Perspective of Globalization Chapter 6 Secularization or New Religious Paradigms?