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Author:   Detlef Pollack (Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany) ,  Daniel V.A. Olson (Purdue University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9780415512534

ISBN 10:   0415512530
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   09 December 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Religious Change in Modern Societies- Perspectives Offered By the Sociology of Religion 2. The Continuing Secular Transition 3. God, Gaelic and Needlepoint: Religion as a Social Accomplishment 4. Religion in Central and Eastern Europe: Was There a Re-awakening After the Breakdown of Communism? 5. Quantitative Evidence Favoring and Opposing the Religious Market Model 6. Secularization and the State: The Role Government Policy Plays in Determining Social Religiosity 7. Unsecular Europe: The Persistence of Religion 8. From ‘Believing without Belonging’ to ‘Vicarious Religion’: Understanding the Patterns of Religion in Modern Europe 9. The Cultural Paradigm: Declines in Belonging and Then Believing 10. Religious Individualization or Secularization: An Attempt to Evaluate the Thesis of Religious Individualization in Eastern and Western Germany 11. 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 12. Secularization Theory and Rational Choice: An Integration of Macro- and Micro-Theories of Secularization using the Example of Switzerland

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Detlef Pollack is Professor of Comparative Sociology of Culture at Europa-Universitat Viadrina, Germany. Daniel V. A. Olson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

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