The role of religion in modern societies
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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY [u.a.]
Routledge
2008
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Routledge advances in sociology (31)
Year: 2008 |
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| Series/Journal: | Routledge advances in sociology
31 |
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Religious sociology
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Collection of essays
B Religion and sociology B Conference program 2004 (New York, NY) |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Kongress aus d. Vorw. erm |
| Physical Description: | XV, 279 S., Ill., graph. Darst., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0-415-39704-9 978-0-415-39704-9 |
