紹介
The power of modernity to secularise has been a foundational idea of the western world. Both social science and church history understood that the Christian religion from 1750 was deeply vulnerable to industrial urbanisation and the Enlightenment. But as evidence mounts that countries of the European world experienced secularising forces in different ways at different periods, the timing and causes of de-Christianisation are now widely seen as far from straightforward.
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Contents: Introduction: conceptualising secularisation 1974-2010: the influence of Hugh McLeod, Callum G. Brown and Michael Snape
Towards eliminating the concept of secularisation
a progress report, Jeffrey Cox
Implicit understandings of religion in sociological study and in the work of Hugh McLeod, Linda Woodhead
Protestant migrations: narratives of the rise and decline of religion in the North Atlantic world , c.1650-1950, David Hempton
Protestantism, monarchy and the defence of Christian Britain 1837-2005, John Wolffe
Australia: towards secularisation and one step back, David Hilliard
Secularisation or resacralisation? The Canadian case, 1760-2000, Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau
A classic case of de-Christianisation? Religious change in Scandinavia c.1750-2000, Erik Sidenvall
War, religion and revival: the United States, British and Canadian armies during the Second World War, Michael Snape
Women and religion in Britain: the autobiographical view of the 50s and 60s, Callum G. Brown
The strange death of Dutch Christianity, Peter van Rooden
Europe in the age of secularisation, Lucian Holscher
Secularisation in the UK and USA, Steve Bruce
Thinking broadly and thinking deeply: 2 examples of the study of religion in the modern world, Grace Davie
Index.
