This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The multiplicity of theories of secularization can be grouped into three general theoretical orientations: those which point to loss of bases ...

Scholars studying religion as a social institution have struggled to explain two contradictory trends. Secularization theory posits America as increasingly less religious, yet religious participation ...

According to new research in the sociology of religion, secularization has increased rapidly in the past ten years, even in countries that were previously strongly Christian. “We are observing a rapid ...