The Secularization Debate

by William H. Swatos Jr.

Introduced to social scientific audiences by Max Weber, the concept of secularization has had a major influence on the way in which religion has been understood in the West since the 1960s, but since the late 1980s both its predictive and descriptive adequacy has been seriously challenged. The Secularization Debate is a collection of essays by prominent American and European scholars that forcefully delineates the critical issues pivotal to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742507610
• ISBN13: 9780742507616
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.9"