Martin On Secularization

Towards a Revised General Theory
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-91381-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

'Secularization' has been hotly debated since it was first subjected to critical attention in the mid-sixties by David Martin, before he sketched a 'General Theory' in 1969. 'On Secularization' presents David Martin's reassessment of the key issues: with particular regard to the special situation of religion in Western Europe, and questions in the global context including Pentecostalism in Latin America and Africa. Concluding with examinations of Pluralism, Christian Language, and Christianity and Politics, this book offers students and other readers of social theory and sociology of religion an invaluable reappraisal of Christianity and Secularization. It represents the most comprehensive sociology of contemporary Christianity, set in historical depth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Foreword, Charles Taylor; Introduction. PART I ORIENTATIONS: Sociology, religion and secularization; Evangelical expansion in global society. PART II EUROPE: Rival patterns of Secularization and their 'triumphal ways'; Comparative Secularization North and South; Religion, Secularity, Secularism and European integration; Canada in Comparative Perspective; The USA in central European perspective. PART III NARRATIVES aND METANARRATIVES: Secularization: master narrative or several stories?; Pentecostalism: a major narrative of modernity. PART IV COMMENTARY: Mission and the plurality of faiths; What is Christian language?;The Christian, the political and the academic. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

David Martin is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London School of Economics and is Honorary Professor at Lancaster University, UK. He is author of more than twenty books, of which a key one was A General Theory of Secularization (1978), a foundational text, which shifted the debate towards the historical variability of secularization.