'Secularization and Cultural Criticism' examines the responses of a wide range of thinkers to illustrate exactly why the problem of secularisation in the study

‘Secularization’ sounds simple, a decline in the power of religion. Yet, the history of the term is controversial and multi-faceted; it has been useful to b

The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a conseque

In an epoch in which religion has explicitly and sometimes violently returned to the forefront of the global public scene, the process of secularization that ha

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