`Secularization' has meant the appropriation of church property, a suppression or decline in the influence of religious ideas and practices, and the continuing influence of religion in `secular' form. This book will introduce the reader to this variety and show how it bears on the contemporary politics of religion.''''''
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The Career of a Concept 2. Secularization and Ambivalence 3. Four Sociological Secularization Gospels 4. Secularization and Philosophy 5. The Revenge of History and Sociology 6. Fundamentalism, Zombie Religion, Secular Religion 7. An Inconclusive Conclusion
