The Cultivation of Conformity: Towards a General Theory of Internal Secularisation

by Pink Dandelion

Book Overview

This book explores the inter-relationship between religious groups and wider society and examines the way religious groups change in relation to societal norms, potentially to the point of undergoing processes of 'internal secularisation' within secular and secularist cultures. Received sociological wisdom suggests that over time religious groups moderate their claims. This comes with the potential loss of new adherents, for theorists of secularisation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138740144
• ISBN13: 9781138740143
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"