Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide

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Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart
Type:	eBook
Released:	2004
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Page Count:	349
Format:	pdf
Language:	English
ISBN-10:	052183984X
ISBN-13:	9780521839846

Seminal thinkers of the nineteenth century -- Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud -- all predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the emergence of industrial society.Sacred and Secular: Religion ... Textbook The belief that religion was dying became the conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century. During the last decade, however, the secularization thesis has experienced the most sustained challenge in its long history. The traditional secularization thesis needs updating. Religion has not disappeared and is unlikely to do so. Nevertheless, the concept of secularization captures an important part of what is going on. This book develops a theory of secularization and existential security. Sacred and Secular is essential reading for anyone interested in comparative religion, sociology, public opinion, political behavior, political development, social psychology, international relations, and cultural change.