On Secularization

Presents a reassessment of the key issues: with particular regard to the special situation of religion in Western Europe, and quesions in the global context including Pentecostalism in Latin America and Africa. This book offers students and other readers of social theory and sociology of religion invaluable reappraisal of Christianity.

ISBN	0754653226	DEWEY	306.6
ISBN13	9780754653226 (What's this?)	DEWEY edition	DC22
Publisher	Ashgate Publishing Group	Pages	240
Imprint	Ashgate Publishing Limited	Volumes	001
Format	Paperback	Published in	Aldershot
Publication date	28 Jun 2005	Height (mm)	234
Library of Congress	BT83.7.M38	Academic level	General

	Foreword by Charles Taylor
1	Sociology, religion and secularization	17
2	Evangelical expansion in global society	26
3	Rival patterns of secularization and their 'triumphal ways'	47
4	Comparative secularization north and south	58
5	Religion, secularity, secularism and European integration	75
6	Canada in comparative perspective	91
7	The USA in Centra European perspective	100
8	Central Europe and the loosening of monopoly and the religious tie	112
9	Secularization : master narrative or several stories?	123
10	Pentecostalism : a major narrative of modernity	141
11	Mission and the plurality of faiths	157
12	What is Christian language?	171
13	The Christian, the political and the academic	185

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