Secularization

VOLUME ONE: DEFINING SECULARIZATION: THE SECULAR IN HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Religious Aspects of Modernization in Turkey and Japan - Robert N. Bellah Civil Religion and Secularization: Ideological revitalization in post-revolutionary communist systems - Timothy W. Luke Secularization in the Netherlands - Frank J. Lechner Tranformative Constitutionalism and the Case of Religion: Defending the moderate hegemony of liberalism - Stephen Macedo Richard Hooker and American Religious Liberty - Wendy Dackson The Reconstruction of Religious Arenas in the Framework of "Multiple Modernities" - Shmuel N. Eisenstadt Historicizing the Secularization Debate: Church, state, and society in late medieval and early modern Europe, ca. 1300 to 1700 - Philip S. Gorski The Crisis of Indian Secularism - Sumit Ganguly A Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Church-State Relations in Europe - John T.S. Madeley The Enlightenment, Communism, and Political Religion: Reflections on a misleading trajectory - Richard Shorten Under God but Not the Scarf: The founding myths of religious freedom in the United States and laicite in France - T. Jeremy Gunn Contentious Public Religion: Two conceptions of Islam in revolutionary Islam - Ali Shariati and Abdolkarim Soroush - Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi Hinduism, Christianity and Liberal Religious Tolerance - Jeff Spinner-Halevy "Religious Nationalism": A textbook case from Turkey - Sam Kaplan Religion - Bryan S. Turner Religion in Public Space: A theoretical perspective and comparison of Russia, Japan and the United States - James T. Richardson Secularism and the Public-Private Divide: Europe can learn from Latin America - David Lehmann Religious Extremism: The good, the bad and the deadly - Laurence R. Iannacone and Eli Berman Southeast Asia Spirited Politics: Religion and public life in contemporary Southeast Asia - Henry D. Delcore Religious Nationalism and the Making of the Modern Japanese State - Fumiko Fukase-Indergaard and Michael Indergaard VOLUME TWO: THE SOCIOLOGY OF SECULARIZATION Towards Eliminating the Concept of Secularization - David Martin Secularization and Pluralism - Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann The Concept of Secularization in Empirical Research - Larry Shiner Pluralism, Religion and Secularism - Milton J. Yinger The Death of God: An analysis of ideological crisis - Richard K. Fenn Sociologists and Secularization - Roland Robertson Aspects of Secularization in the West - Bryan Wilson Secularization Theories and Sociological Paradigms - Karel Dobbelaere Toward Desacralizing Secularization Theory - Jeffrey K. Hadden The Implicit Religion of Contemporary Society: Some studies and reflections - Edward I. Bailey Religious Deregulation - Roger Finke Shrinking Transcendence, Expanding Religion? - Thomas Luckmann The Secularization Issue: Prospect and retrospect - David Martin Secularization as Declining Religious Authority - Mark Chaves A Supply-Side Reinterpretation of the "Secularization" of Europe - Rodney Stark and Laurence R. Iannaccone The Privatization of Religion and Morality - Thomas Luckmann Secularism - John Keane Christianity and the Secular - James Wetzel Secularization and the Impotence of Individualized Religion - Steve Bruce Religion in Europe in the 21st Century: The factors to take into account - Grace Davie VOLUME THREE: AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM Christianity and Modern Industrial Society - Talcott Parsons Civil Religion in America - Robert N. Bellah Fundamentalism as an American Phenomenon: A comparison with English evangelicalism - George Marsden Max Weber on Churches and Sects in North America: An alternative path toward rationalization - Colin Loader and Jeffrey C. Alexander Modernity and Fundamentalism: The new Christian right in America - Steve Bruce The Reliability of Historical United States Census Data on Religion - Rodney Stark What the Polls Don't Show: A closer look at U. S. church attendance - C. Kirk Hadaway, Penny Long Marler and Mark Chaves Why Strict Churches Are Strong - Laurence R. Iannaccone Is There a Common American Culture? - Robert N. Bellah Excepting Exceptionalism: American religion in comparative relief - N. Jay Demerath, III Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation - Mark Chaves and Philip S. Gorski The Center Doesn't Hold: Church attendance in the United States - Michael Hout and Andrew M. Greeley Tracking the Restructuring of American Religion: Religious affiliation and patterns of religious mobility, 1973-1998 - Darren E. Sherkat Fundamentalism as a Class Culture - Thaddeus Coreno "Being Religious" or "Being Spiritual" in America: A zero-sum proposition? - Penny Long Marler and C. Kirk Hadaway Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State - Daniel J. McCarthy Remnants of Romanticism: Max Weber in Oklahoma and Indian territory - Lawrence A. Scaff Talcott Parsons's Sociology of Religion and the Expressive Revolution: The problem of western individualism - Bryan S. Turner Atheists as 'Other': Moral boundaries and cultural membership in American society - Penny Edgell, Joseph Gerteis and Douglas Hartmann Uneven Secularization in the United States and Western Europe - Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart The Problem of "American Exceptionalism" Revisited - John Torpey VOLUME FOUR: THE COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY OF DE-SECULARIZATION Political Religion: The case of the cultural revolution in China - Jiping Zuo A Religious Revival in Russia? - Andrew M. Greeley The Worldwide Rise of Religious Nationalism - Mark Juergensmeyer Religion and Spirituality: Unfuzzying the fuzzy - Brian J. Zinnbauer et al Fundamentalism and Globalism - David Lehmann Is Religious Belief Declining in Britain? - Robin Gill, C. Kirk Hadaway and Penny Long Marler New Age Spiritualities as Secular Religion: A historian's perspective - Wouter J. Hanegraaff Problems with the (De)Privatization of Religion - Chris Hann The Varieties of Sacred Experience: Finding the sacred in a secular grove - N. Jay Demerath, III Religious Nationalism and the Problem of Collective Representation - Roger Friedland The Curious Case of the Unnecessary Recantation: Berger and secularization - Steve Bruce Winds of Change: Religious nationalism in a transformation context - Frans Hoppenbrouwers Religion in Britain: Neither believing nor belonging - David Voas and Alasdair Crockett Challenging Secularization Theory: The growth of "new age" spiritualities of life - Paul Heelas In Search of Certainties: The paradoxes of religiosity in societies of high modernity - Daniele Hervieu-Leger Religion in the Public Sphere - J rgen Habermas Bryan Wilson's Contributions to the Study of the New Religious Movements - Eileen Barker The Future of Religion - Graham Ward New Wine in Old Wineskins: An appraisal of religious legislation in China and the regulations on religious affairs of 2005 - Fuk-Tsang Ying Spirituality and Popular Religion in Europe - Hubert Knoblauch