Drawing on an international range of examples, Steve Bruce offers a comprehensive and up-to-date defence of the secularisation debate.
Figures. Tables.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. The Secularization Paradigm.
2. The Golden Age of Faith.
3. God is Dead: Christianity in Britain.
4. The Failure of the New Age.
5. Science and Secularization.
6. The Easternization of the West.
7. Regression to the Mean.
8. Subsistence Religion.
9. The Charismatic Movement and Secularization.
10. Discovering Religion: Mistakes of Method.
11. Religion in the United States.
12. Postmodernism and the Religious Revival.
Notes.
References.
Index.
