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Secularization [PDF ebook]
In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory

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The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization. Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce, elaborates the secularization paradigm and defends it against a wide variety of recent attempts at rebuttal and refutation. Using the best available statistical and qualitative evidence Bruce considers the implications for the

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Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9780191612176 ● Publisher OUP Oxford ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2490076 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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