God Is Dead Secularization in the West

Name: God Is Dead Secularization in the West
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ISBN: 9780631232759

ISBN-10: 0631232753

ISBN-13: 9780631232759

Edition: 2002

Authors: Steve Bruce

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In this defence of the secularization paradigm, Bruce elaborates just what Weber, Durkheim, Berger and Wilson thought was happening to religion in the West, and responds to critics of this concept.

Book details

List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/29/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.05" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Figures


Tables


Preface


Acknowledgements



The Secularization Paradigm


Introduction


The paradigm


Counter-tendencies


What the paradigm does not assert


Conclusion



The Golden Age of Faith


Introduction


The critics


What historians show: Institutional religion


What historians show: Supernaturalism


Conclusion



God is Dead: Christianity in Britain


Introduction


Stark theory


The world we have lost


Religion in Britain 1851-2000


Conclusion



The Failure of the New Age


Introduction


Cultic religion


The extent of the New Age


The nature of the New Age


The appeal of the New Age


The precariousness of diffuse beliefs


Conclusion



Science and Secularization


Introduction


The paradox


The resolution


Conclusion



The Easternization of the West


Introduction


Eastern themes


Explaining the changes


Adapting the East


Romanticizing the underdog


Buddhist by default


Conclusion



Regression to the Mean


Introduction


Vignettes


The moral



Subsistence Religion


Introduction


The defects of state churches


The supply-side explanation of inactivity


The religion in question


Social development


The Men


Conclusion



The Charismatic Movement and Secularization


Introduction


Renewal and restoration


The scale of the movement


Trajectory


The nature of the movement


Denominationalism


Conclusion



Discovering Religion: Mistakes of Method


Introduction


Questions and answers


Contentious cut-offs


Imperialistic interpretation


Implied trajectories


The bias of the starting assumption


Evasion and collusion


Discovery by definition


Conclusion



Religion in the United States


Introduction


Patterns of church adherence


Changes in the nature of US religion


The constraints on fundamentalism


Why the USA is different


Conclusion



Postmodernism and Religious Revival


Introduction


Postmodernism


The return of the gods?


Choice and belief


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index