Religion in secular society : fifty years on / Bryan R. Wilson and Steve Bruce

Author:: Wilson, Bryan R.
Published:: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:: New edition.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource
Additional Creators:: Bruce, Steve, 1954-

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Pattern of Secularization -- 1.Statistical Evidence of Secularization in England -- 2.Denominationalism and Secularization -- 3.The Social Context of Secularization -- 4.Religion and Other Social Institutions -- 5.Secularization and the Clerical Profession -- pt. II Secularization in America -- 6.Religion in America: A Contrasting Pattern -- 7.Religion and Status: America and England -- pt. III The Religious Response -- 8.The Clergy and Ecumenicalism -- 9.The Ecumenical Implications of Christian Expansion -- 10.Ecumenicalism and the Denominations -- pt. IV The Sectarian and Denominational Alternative -- 11.The Origins and Functions of Sects -- 12.Emerging Denominations and Persisting Sects.

Summary:

This is a new edition of 'Religion in Secular Society' by Bryan Wilson (1926-2004), a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford for thirty years and one of the leading sociologists of religion of the twentieth century.

Subject(s):

Church and the world

ISBN:

9780191830297 (ebook)

Audience Notes:

Specialized.

Note:

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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