Theorists of "secularization" have for two centuries been saying that religion must inevitably decline in the modern world. But today, much of the world is as r

This volume concerns itself with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization. Dealing with

A classical sociologist can be defined as someone whose "works occupied a central position among the sociological ideas and notions of an era." Following this c

This book is the summation of many decades of work by Peter L. Berger, an internationally renowned sociologist of religion. Secularization theory—which saw mo

In a sweeping reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of mo