1st Edition
The Role of Religion in Modern Societies
List of Tables
List of Graphs
Preface
Detlef Pollack and Daniel Olson
Chapter 1: Introduction: Religious Change in Modern Societies- Perspectives Offered By the Sociology of Religion
Detlef Pollack
Section One: The secularization theory: Classical assumptions and ramifications
Chapter 2: The Continuing Secular Transition
David Voas
Chapter 3: God, Gaelic and Needlepoint: Religion as a Social Accomplishment
Steve Bruce
Chapter 4: Religion in Central and Eastern Europe: Was There a Re-awakening After the Breakdown of Communism?
Olaf Müller
Section Two: The market model: Classical assumptions and ramifications
Chapter 5: Quantitative Evidence Favoring and Opposing the Religious Market Model
Daniel Olson
Chapter 6: Secularization and the State:
The Role Government Policy Plays in Determining Social Religiosity
Anthony Gill
Chapter 7: Unsecular Europe: The Persistence of Religion
Andrew Greeley
Section 3: The individualization thesis: Classical assumptions and ramifications
Chapter 8: From ‘Believing without belonging’ to ‘Vicarious Religion’: Understanding the Patterns of Religion in Modern Europe
Grace Davie
Chapter 9: The Cultural Paradigm: Declines in Belonging and Then Believing
Robin Gill
Chapter 10: Religious individualization or secularization: An attempt to evaluate the thesis of religious individualization in Eastern and Western Germany
Gert Pickel and Detlef Pollack
Section Four: New theories on religion and modernity exemplified at the European case
Chapter 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
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
Chapter 12: Secularization Theory and Rational Choice:
An integration of macro- and micro-theories of secularization using the example of Switzerland
Jörg Stolz
Contributors
Index
Biography
Detlef Pollack is Professor of Comparative Sociology of Culture at Europa-Universitat Viadrina, Germany.
Daniel V. A. Olson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
