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Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide

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August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the emergence of industrial society. Their belief that religion was dying became conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century. However, this analysis reveals that the traditional secularization thesis needs updating now. Religion has not disappeared and is unlikely to do so, even though secularization has had a surprisingly powerful negative impact on human fertility rates.

Language: English

Pages: 348

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: September 27, 2004

ISBN: 0521548721

ISBN 13: 9780521548724

Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide

3.1/5 ( ratings)

August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the emergence of industrial society. Their belief that religion was dying became conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century. However, this analysis reveals that the traditional secularization thesis needs updating now. Religion has not disappeared and is unlikely to do so, even though secularization has had a surprisingly powerful negative impact on human fertility rates.

Language: English

Pages: 348

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: September 27, 2004

ISBN: 0521548721

ISBN 13: 9780521548724

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