Europe: the Exceptional Case. Parameters of Faith in the Modern World - Softcover

Grace Davie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0232524254 ISBN 13: 9780232524253

Publisher: Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

Europeans are prone to think that what happens in Europe today will happen elsewhere in the world tomorrow. Hence their conviction that as the world modernizes, it will necessarily secularize. But quite simply this hasn't happened. Grace Davie considers, for example, the situation in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and the United States where, despite modernization, there is scant evidence for secularization She shows that European religion is not a model for export; it is something distinct, peculiar to the European corner of the world and needs to be understood in these terms.

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About the Author:

Grace Davie is Reader in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Exeter. She is the author of a number of influential books including Religion in Britain since 1945, and European Religion: a memory mutates.

About this edition

• Publisher: Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0232524254
• ISBN 13: 9780232524253
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192