Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory

By Steve Bruce

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199654123
• ISBN13: 9780199654123
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"