The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization. Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce, elaborates the secularization paradigm and defends it against a wide variety of recent attempts at rebuttal and refutation. Using the best available statistical and qualitative evidence Bruce considers the implications for the
1. Describing Secularization ; 2. Explaining Secularization ; 3. Clarifying Secularization ; 4. Religion Outside the Churches ; 5. Contemporary Spirituality ; 6. Superstition ; 7. The Supply-side Alternative ; 8. Unexceptional America ; 9. Secularization Elsewhere ; 10. Will Conflict Reverse Secularization?
Steve Bruce's Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory, as the title suggests, is an explicitly uncompromising exhortation to take up the secularization paradigm ... once and for all and without hesitation. A deeply interesting, well-written and well-informed book.
Marta Trzebiatowska, Steve Bruce, University of Aberdeen) Trzebiatowska, Marta (Lecturer in Sociology, University of Aberdeen) Bruce, Steve (Professor of Sociology
Bryan R. Wilson, University of Oxford) Wilson, Bryan R. (Formerly Reader Emeritus in Sociology, Bryan Wilson, Steve Bruce, University of Aberdeen) Bruce, Steve (Professor of Sociology
Marta Trzebiatowska, Steve Bruce, University of Aberdeen) Trzebiatowska, Marta (Lecturer in Sociology, University of Aberdeen) Bruce, Steve (Professor of Sociology
Marta Trzebiatowska, Steve Bruce, University of Aberdeen) Trzebiatowska, Marta (Lecturer in Sociology, University of Aberdeen) Bruce, Steve (Professor of Sociology
Steve Bruce, Tony Glendinning, Michael Rosie, University of Aberdeen) Bruce, Steve (Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen) Glendinning, Tony (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Edinburgh) Rosie, Michael (Lecturer in Sociology
Bryan R. Wilson, University of Oxford) Wilson, Bryan R. (Formerly Reader Emeritus in Sociology, Bryan Wilson, Steve Bruce, University of Aberdeen) Bruce, Steve (Professor of Sociology