Overview

Sociologist David Martin has framed the secularization debate, guided Pentecostal studies, and shaped the scholarly study of religion. Martin's work possesses both theoretical depth and global perspective. This reader celebrates his best and most important work. It is essential reading for scholars and students who want to learn more about modernization and cultural change, Pentecostalism and the Global South, peace and violence, religion and sociology, and theology and politics.

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Author:   David Martin ,  Dedong Wei ,  Zhifeng Zhong ,  Grace Davie
Publisher:   Baylor University Press
Imprint:   Baylor University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.839kg
ISBN:  

9781602589742

ISBN 10:   1602589747
Pages:   597
Publication Date:   30 August 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Section I: RELIGION AND PACIFISM, PEACE AND VIOLENCE 1. The Denomination 2. Basic Categories: Troeltsch and Weber 3. The Break with Nature 4. Catholic Compromise and Sectarian Rejection 5. Can We Blame Religion or Human Nature? 6. Recapitulations and Mutations Section II: RELIGION AND POLITICS 7. The Religious and the Political 8. Christianity, Violence and Democracy 9. Protestantism and Democracy 10. Why and How the Two Revolutions Were Forbidden Section III: SECULARISATION 11. Toward Eliminating the Concept of Secularisation 12. Secularisation and the Future of Christianity 13. What I Really Said about Secularisation 14. Does the Advance of Science Mean Secularisation? 15. Has Secularisation Gone into Reverse? Section IV: PENTECOSTALISM 16. Anglo and Latin: Rival Civilizations, Alternative Patterns 17. The Methodist Model 18. The Argument Summarized and Extended 19. Pentecostalism Section V: BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES 20. Historical Background: Dissenters and Abstainers 21. Believing without Belonging 22. The United States in Central European Perspective 23. Another Strange Death Section VI: THEOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY 24. The Sociological Mode and the Theological Vocabulary 25. The Paradigm and the Double Structure 26. Modes of Change 27. What Is Christian Language? 28. Does the Sociological Viewpoint Bear on the Theistic Vision? 29. Changing Your Holy Ground Section VII: FAITH, CULTURE AND EDUCATION 30. Order and Rule 31. Parts and Wholes, Objectives and Objectivity 32. The Christian, the Political and the Academic

Reviews

This is a thorough representation of David Martin's body of work as a whole. The book brings the reader back time and time again to Martin's main interests: secularization, politics and religion, and religious language alongside sociological methods, to name the most important. --Tom Riser Nova Religio

This is a thorough representation of David Martin's body of work as a whole. The book brings the reader back time and time again to Martin's main interests: secularization, politics and religion, and religious language alongside sociological methods, to name the most important.--Tom Riser Nova Religio

Author Information

David Martin was born and raised in Calgary, where he lives with his wife and children. His poetry has been awarded the CBC Poetry Prize, shortlisted for the Vallum Award for Poetry and PRISM international's poetry contest, and published in many journals and magazines across Canada. He is an instructor at The Reading Foundation, one of the organizers for Calgary's Single Onion poetry reading series, and the frontman for an indie-pop group, The Fragments.

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