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BL
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628130
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The role of religion in modern societies /\ edited by Detlef Pollack and Daniel V.A. Olson
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, c2008
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| Series Statement
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Routledge advances in sociology ;
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| Page. NO
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xv, 279 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780415397049 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 0415397049 (hardback : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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 Müller -- 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 / Jörg Stolz
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Religion and sociology
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| Dewey Classification
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306.6
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BL60.R66 2008
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BL60.R66 2008
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| Added Entry
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Pollack, Detlef,1955-
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Olson, Daniel V. A.,1953-
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