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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 consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization.
Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce, elaborates the secularization paradigm and defends it against a wide variety of recent attempts at rebuttal and refutation. Using the best available statistical and qualitative evidence Bruce considers the implications for the
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Steve Bruce's Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory, as the title suggests, is an explicitly uncompromising exhortation to take up the secularization paradigm ... once and for all and without hesitation. A deeply interesting, well-written and well-informed book. (Joseph Rivera, The Expository Times Vol. 124)
it offers a brief and valuable summary of a complex argument. It is a highly effective means for initiating the intellectual conversation about secularization, so it might be ideal reading for a graduate seminarâs first week of classes. (Victor Roudometof, Social Forces)
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Steve Bruce is Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen.
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