Martin, David, 1929-2019.

On secularization : towards a revised general theory / David Martin. - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005. - x, 206 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sociology, religion and secularization -- Evangelical expansion in global society -- Rival patterns of secularization and their 'triumphal ways' -- Comparative secularization north and south -- Religion, secularity, secularism and European integration -- Canada in comparative perspective -- The USA in Central European perspective -- Central Europe and the loosening of monopology and the religious tie -- Secularization : master narrative or several stories? -- Pentecostalism : a major narrative of modernity -- Mission and the plurality of faiths -- What is Christian language? -- The Christian, the political, and the academic.

0754653145 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0754653226 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Secularization (Theology)

BT 83.7 / .M38 2005