000			04872cam a22005418i 4500
001			9781315754864
003			FlBoTFG
005			20220509192939.0
006			m d | |
007			cr |||||||||||
008			190709s2019 enk ob 001 0 eng
040			_aOCoLC-P _beng _erda _cOCoLC-P
020			_a9781315754864 _q(ebk)
020			_a131575486X
020			_a9781317625377 _q(electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
020			_a1317625374 _q(electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
020			_a9781317625384 _q(electronic bk. : EPUB)
020			_a1317625382 _q(electronic bk. : EPUB)
020			_a9781317625391 _q(electronic bk. : PDF)
020			_a1317625390 _q(electronic bk. : PDF)
020			_z9781138801554 _q(hbk)
020			_z9781138801561 _q(pbk)
035			_a(OCoLC)1108804047
035			_a(OCoLC-P)1108804047
050	0	0	_aBL2747.8
072		7	_aSOC _x000000 _2bisacsh
072		7	_aSOC _x026000 _2bisacsh
072		7	_aJHB _2bicssc
082	0	0	_a306.6 _223
100	1		_aTurner, Charles, _d1962- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSecularization / _cCharles Turner.
264		1	_aAbingdon, Oxon ; _aNew York, NY : _bRoutledge, _c2019.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bn _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aKey ideas
520			_a"'Secularization' sounds simple, a decline in the power of religion. Yet, the history of the term is controversial and multi-faceted; it has been useful to both religious believers and non-believers and has been deployed by scholars to make sense of a variety of aspects of cultural and social change. This book will introduce the reader to this variety and show how secularization bears on the contemporary politics of religion. Secularization addresses the sociological classics' ambivalent accounts of the future of religion, later and more robust sociological claims about religious decline, and the most influential philosophical secularization thesis, which says that the dominant ideas of modern thought are in fact religious ones in a secularized form. The book outlines some shortcomings of these accounts in the light of historical inquiry and comparative sociology; examines claims that some religions are 'resistant to secularization'; and analyses controversies in the politics of religion, in particular over the relationship between Christianity and Islam and over the implicitly religious character of some modern political movements. By giving equal attention to both sociological and philosophical accounts of secularization, and equal weight to ideas, institutions and practices, this book introduces complicated ideas in a digestible format. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in making unusual connections within sociology, anthropology, philosophy, theology and political theory"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aCover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of tables; Preface; 1. The career of a concept; Polemical and technical; German words; Secularization is for everyone; Defining religion; Notes; 2. Secularization and ambivalence; De Tocqueville, Catholicism, and Islam; Marx on religion and human emancipation; Max Weber's ambivalence by design; Durkheim and moral mediocrity; Georg Simmel's religious people; Conclusion; Notes; 3. Four sociological secularization gospels; Bryan Wilson: a sober secularization; Alasdair MacIntrye: class fragmentation
505	8		_aPeter Berger and the deep roots of secularizationPhilip Rieff and the crisis of culture; Conclusion; Notes; 4. Secularization and philosophy; Löwith: progress as secularized eschatology; Voegelin: modern gnosticism as secularized heresy; Carl Schmitt and modernity's legitimacy problem; Hans Kelsen's message in a bottle; Blumenberg, progress and the complementarity of science and myth; Girard, secularization, and demythologization; Conclusion; Notes; 5. The revenge of history and sociology; Grand narratives; Gender and sexuality; Urbanization; Pluralism and religious vitality
505	8		_aInfluence: is that all there is?Smaller narratives and secularization struggles; War; Instead of secularization, the creation of secular spaces: Israel; Note; 6. Fundamentalism, zombie religion, secular religion; The revenge of God; Political and religious controversy as alaboratory; Secular religion?; 7. An inconclusive conclusion; Bibliography; Index
588			_aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650		0	_aSecularization.
650		0	_aSecularism.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General _2bisacsh
856	4	0	_3Taylor & Francis _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315754864
856	4	2	_3OCLC metadata license agreement _uhttp://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
999			_c127067 _d127067