The role of religion in modern societies /
The role of religion in modern societies /
edited by Detlef Pollack and Daniel V.A. Olson.
- New York : Routledge, c2008.
- xv, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 31 .
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 31. .
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 M�uller -- 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 / J�org Stolz.
9780415512534 0415397049 (hardback : alk. paper)
2007002567
Religion and sociology.
BL60 / .R66 2008
306.6 / ROL 2008
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 M�uller -- 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 / J�org Stolz.
9780415512534 0415397049 (hardback : alk. paper)
2007002567
Religion and sociology.
BL60 / .R66 2008
306.6 / ROL 2008