The Secularization Debate

by William H. Swatos Jr and Daniel V. A. Olson

Peter Beyer, William H. Swatos, Jr.-Association for the Sociology of Religionand Liliane Voye-Universite Catholique de Louvain, , Belgique, and Jr.-Association for the Sociology of Religionand Liliane Voyé-Université Catholique de Louvain

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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.
  • ISBN10 0742507610
  • ISBN13 9780742507616
  • Publish Date 30 July 2000 (first published 1 January 1900)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
  • Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 136
  • Language English