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'This is the antidote to fact-free speculation. Instead of grandiose speculation about the impact of globalization and economic development on religion world-wide, Norris and Inglehart give us gold standard social science: sound reasoning based on the vast body of evidence in the accumulated World Values Survey data sets.' Steve Bruce, University of Aberdeen
'This book, by two skilled and prolific political scientists, will be widely read by scholars and students interested in gender politics, political culture, political change and modernization, and comparative public opinion and political participation.' Virginia Sapiro, University of Wisconsin, Madison
'Using the concept of existential security, Norris and Inglehart recast the debate on secularization. Their interdisciplinary approach successfully overcomes previous pitfalls to produce a nuanced and thought-provoking treatment of contemporary relations between religion and economic development.' Rachel M. McCleary, Harvard University
Book Description
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.
Sacred and Secular : Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics),Pippa Norris,Ronald Inglehart,David C. Leege,Kenneth D. Wald,Cambridge University Press,0521548721,General,History & Theory - General,Political Science,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Religion and politics,Religion, Politics & State,Sociology of Religion,POLITICS & GOVERNMENT,Political Science / General,Religion & Beliefs
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