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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Tables
Figures
Preface
1. Introduction: Religious Change in Modern Societies—Perspectives Offered by the Sociology of Religion
Section 1: Secularization Theory: Classical Assumptions and Ramifications
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?
Section 2: The Market Model: Classical Assumptions and Ramifications
5. Quantitative Evidence Favoring and Opposing the Religious Economies Model
6. Secularization and the State: The Role Government Policy Plays in Determining Social Religiosity
7. Unsecular Europe: The Persistence of Religion
Section 3: The Individualization Thesis Classical Assumptions and Ramifications
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
Section 4: New Theories on Religionand Modernity Exemplified at the European Case
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
Contributors
Index
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