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

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

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 challenges the modern myth that tolerance grows as societies become less religious. The myth inseparably links the progress of toleration to the secul