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The role of religion in modern societies /

0415397049 (hardback : alk. paper)

9780415397049 (hardback : alk. paper)

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The role of religion in modern societies /

[Book]

edited by Detlef Pollack and Daniel V.A. Olson

New York :

Routledge,

c2008

xv, 279 p. :

ill. ;

24 cm

Routledge advances in sociology ;

31

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Religious change in modern societies--perspectives offered by the sociology of religion / Detlef Pollack -- The continuing secular transition / David Voas -- God, Gaelic, and needlepoint : religion as a social accomplishment / Steve Bruce -- Religion in Central and Eastern Europe : was there a re-awakening after the breakdown of communism? / Olaf Müller -- Quantitative evidence favoring and opposing the religious economies model / Daniel V.A. Olson -- Secularization and the state : the role government policy plays in determining social religiosity / Anthony Gill -- Unsecular Europe : the persistence of religion / Andrew Greeley -- From believing without belonging to vicarious religion : understanding the patterns of religion in modern Europe / Grace Davie -- The cultural paradigm : declines in belonging and then believing / Robin Gill -- Religious individualization or secularization : an attempt to evaluate the thesis of religious individualization in Eastern and Western Germany / Detlef Pollack and Gert Pickel -- Religion and science or religion versus science? : about the social construction of the science-religion-antagonism in the German Democratic Republic and its lasting consequences / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Secularization theory and rational choice : an integration of macro- and micro-theories of secularization using the example of Switzerland / Jörg Stolz

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Religion and sociology

Olson, Daniel V. A.,1953-

Pollack, Detlef,1955-

20080506143512.0

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