Secularization: Europe--Yes, United States--No. Phil Zuckerman.
by Zuckerman, Phil; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 32Institutions. Publisher: Skeptical Inquirer, 2004ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Belief and doubt | Europe -- Religion | Europe -- Social conditions | Religion and sociology | Secularization | Social surveys | United States -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "A major concern for sociologists of religion--and a topic of heated debate--is secularization, the process of religious beliefs, symbols, and institutions becoming less influential and significant in society....What the best empirical research reveals is that secularization is unambiguously observable in most of Western Europe, but not in the United States. In fact, religion remains remarkably strong in the United States." (SKEPTICAL INQUIRER) The author discusses how although "we don't know for sure what has caused the religious differences between Western Europe and the United States, the differences are noteworthy and significant, and will surely affect how Europeans and Americans approach and struggle with the oncoming social, political, environmental, and global challenges of the twenty-first century."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Secularization: Europe--Yes, United States--No, March/April 2004; pp. 49-52.
"A major concern for sociologists of religion--and a topic of heated debate--is secularization, the process of religious beliefs, symbols, and institutions becoming less influential and significant in society....What the best empirical research reveals is that secularization is unambiguously observable in most of Western Europe, but not in the United States. In fact, religion remains remarkably strong in the United States." (SKEPTICAL INQUIRER) The author discusses how although "we don't know for sure what has caused the religious differences between Western Europe and the United States, the differences are noteworthy and significant, and will surely affect how Europeans and Americans approach and struggle with the oncoming social, political, environmental, and global challenges of the twenty-first century."
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