Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory

by Steve Bruce

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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
  • ISBN10 0199654123
  • ISBN13 9780199654123
  • Publish Date 10 January 2013 (first published 1 January 2011)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 254
  • Language English