The Karel Dobbelaere lecture: Divergent global roads to secularization and religious pluralism
This article analyzes the two divergent, though intertwined, roads of European secularization and global religious pluralism. In continental Western Europe, modernization and urbanization were accompanied by drastic secularization with limited religious pluralism. By contrast, in much of the rest of...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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In: |
Social compass
Year: 2018, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 187-198 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Secularization
/ The Americas
/ Religious pluralism
/ Southern hemisphere
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IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy |
Further subjects: | B
rencontres coloniales
B colonial encounters B Modernity B Modernité B Globalization B secularizationconfessionnalisation B Pluralisme religieux B Mondialisation B Religious Pluralism B Sécularisation B Confessionalization |
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Summary: | This article analyzes the two divergent, though intertwined, roads of European secularization and global religious pluralism. In continental Western Europe, modernization and urbanization were accompanied by drastic secularization with limited religious pluralism. By contrast, in much of the rest of the world, in the Americas, North and South, throughout Asia and the Pacific and in Sub-Saharan Africa, modernization and urbanization have led to religious pluralism with limited secularization. In our contemporary global secular age, the parallel religious and secular dynamics are becoming ever more intertwined and interrelated. |
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ISSN: | 1461-7404 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Social compass
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0037768618767961 |