Relative Secularization and Religious Practice

The term “secularization” should be used only in connection with Becker's sacred-secular continuum. “Secularization” and the “decline” of religious practice in western Europe in modern times must not be equated. Secularization breeds religious reform and renewal, and also renders irrelevant a n...

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Main Author: Goodridge, R. Martin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 1968
In: Sociological analysis
Year: 1968, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 122-135
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Summary:The term “secularization” should be used only in connection with Becker's sacred-secular continuum. “Secularization” and the “decline” of religious practice in western Europe in modern times must not be equated. Secularization breeds religious reform and renewal, and also renders irrelevant a number of once important motivations to religious practice, thus causing many to abandon their practice. In France and England, from the 12th to the 19th century, the town has played a central part in this process. Correctly motivated religious practice, invariably stimulated by secularization, has, over seven hundred years, involved only a proportion of all worshippers.
ISSN:2325-7873
Contains:Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3710145