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100			_aZuckerman, Phil,
245		0	_aSecularization: Europe--Yes, United States--No. _cPhil Zuckerman.
260			_bSkeptical Inquirer, _c2004.
440			_aSIRS Enduring Issues 2005. _nArticle 32, _pInstitutions, _x1522-3256;
500			_aArticles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005.
500			_aOriginally Published: Secularization: Europe--Yes, United States--No, March/April 2004; pp. 49-52.
520			_a"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."
599			_aRecords created from non-MARC resource.
650			_aBelief and doubt
651			_aEurope _xReligion
651			_aEurope _xSocial conditions
650			_aReligion and sociology
650			_aSecularization
650			_aSocial surveys
651			_aUnited States _xSocial conditions
710			_aProQuest Information and Learning Company _tSIRS Enduring Issues 2005, _pInstitutions. _x1522-3256;
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