Secularization and Church Growth in the United Kingdom
Evidence that there are small areas of stability and growth in UK church life has been presented as refutation of the secularization paradigm. This would only be valid if the secularization paradigm required that decline be universal, even, and rapid. This essay argues the secularization requires no...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2013
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Journal of religion in Europe
Année: 2013, Volume: 6, Numéro: 3, Pages: 273-296 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Church Growth
religion
secularization
United Kingdom
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | Evidence that there are small areas of stability and growth in UK church life has been presented as refutation of the secularization paradigm. This would only be valid if the secularization paradigm required that decline be universal, even, and rapid. This essay argues the secularization requires none of these things, clarifies the ambiguity in phrases such as ‘church growth,’ and demonstrates that local growth falls far short of compensating for much larger areas of decline. It also considers what sorts of changes would be required for any reversal of secularization in the United Kingdom and demonstrates their unlikelihood. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Contient: | In: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-00602005 |