Religion and modernity : an international comparison / Detlef Pollack and Gergely Rosta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pollack, Detlef, 1955- author.

Rosta, Gergely, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

This work describes how the social significance of religion in its various facets has changed in modern societies and pinpoints the factors and conditions that have contributed to these changes.

Contents:

Part I. Theoretical reflections. Reflections on the concept of modernity

Reflections on the concept of religion

Key questions and methodological preliminaries

Part II. Religious decline in Western Europe? Between dechurchification and religious persistence: West Germany

A stronghold of Catholicisim: Italy

Religion in free fall: The Netherlands

Part III. Religious renaissance in Eastern Europe. Russia: return of religion

East Germany: no signs of a turnaround

Poland: unexpected vitality after the fall of communism

Part IV. Religious change outside Europe: three case studies. Religion and religiosity in the US: a contrasting case to Europe?

South Korea: the simultaneity of modernization and Christianization

Charismatic, pentecostal, and evangelical movements in Europe, the US, and Brazil

Part V. Systematic perspectives. Macro- and microsociological explanat5ions for differences between countries

Patterns and determinants of religious change in the modern period: towards a multi-paradigmatic theory.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 16, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-252173-X

0-19-184030-0