Authoritative guide to contemporay debates and issues in the sociology of religion providing a clear examination of classical secularization and the post-secula

Classical secularization theory -- Modified secularization theory -- American rejections of secularization theory -- Is there a spiritual revolution? -- The dur

Authoritative guide to contemporay debates and issues in the sociology of religion providing a clear examination of classical secularization And The post-secula

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Owen Chadwick's acclaimed lectures on the secularisation of the European mind trace the declining hold of the Church and its doctrines on European society in th