The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization. Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce, elaborates the secularization paradigm and defends it against a wide variety of recent attempts at rebuttal and refutation. Using the best available statistical and qualitative evidence Bruce considers the implications for the
Reviews
Steve Bruce's Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory, as the title suggests, is an explicitly uncompromising exhortation to take up the secularization paradigm ... once and for all and without hesitation. A deeply interesting, well-written and well-informed book. * Joseph Rivera, The Expository Times Vol. 124 *
it offers a brief and valuable summary of a complex argument. It is a highly effective means for initiating the intellectual conversation about secularization, so it might be ideal reading for a graduate seminaras first week of classes. * Victor Roudometof, Social Forces *



Book Information
ISBN 9780199654123
Author Steve Bruce
Format Paperback
Page Count 254
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm * 13mm