Sacred and Secular - 9780521839846

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Title: Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide

Author: Norris, Pippa Ronald Inglehart

Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Publication Date: 2004

Hardcover; ISBN: 9780521839846

Volumes: 1; Pages: 348

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August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the emergence of industrial society. Their belief that religion was dying became conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century. However, this analysis reveals that the traditional secularization thesis needs updating now. Religion has not disappeared and is unlikely to do so, even though secularization has had a surprisingly powerful negative impact on human fertility rates.ContentsPart I. Understanding Secularization1. The secularization debate2. Measuring secularization3. Comparing secularization worldwidePart II. Case Studies of Religion and Politics4. The puzzle of religiosity in the United States and Western Europe5. A religious revival in post-communist Europe?6. Religion and politics in the Muslim worldPart III. The Consequences of Secularization7. Religion, the Protestant ethic, and moral values8. Religious organizations and social capital9. Religious parties and electoral behaviourPart IV. Conclusions10. Consequences

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