The Pollack, Detlef 1955- Olson, Daniel V. A. 1953- text bibliography nyu New York Routledge c2008 2008 monographic eng

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xv, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Introduction: Religious change in modern societies--perspectives offered by the sociology of religion / Detlef Pollack -- The continuing secular transition / David Voas -- God, Gaelic, and needlepoint : religion as a social accomplishment / Steve Bruce -- Religion in Central and Eastern Europe : was there a re-awakening after the breakdown of communism? / Olaf M�uller -- Quantitative evidence favoring and opposing the religious economies model / Daniel V.A. Olson -- Secularization and the state : the role government policy plays in determining social religiosity / Anthony Gill -- Unsecular Europe : the persistence of religion / Andrew Greeley -- From believing without belonging to vicarious religion : understanding the patterns of religion in modern Europe / Grace Davie -- The cultural paradigm : declines in belonging and then believing / Robin Gill -- Religious individualization or secularization : an attempt to evaluate the thesis of religious individualization in Eastern and Western Germany / Detlef Pollack and Gert Pickel -- Religion and science or religion versus science? : about the social construction of the science-religion-antagonism in the German Democratic Republic and its lasting consequences / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Secularization theory and rational choice : an integration of macro- and micro-theories of secularization using the example of Switzerland / J�org Stolz. edited by Detlef Pollack and Daniel V.A. Olson. Includes bibliographical references and index. Religion and sociology BL60 .R66 2008 306.6 ROL 2008 9780415512534 0415397049 (hardback : alk. paper) 2007002567 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007002567.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007002567.html OCoLC 070119 20181210070335.0 eng