Religion in der Moderne. Ein internationaler Vergleich
Are religion and modernity compatible, do modernisation processes lead to secularisation or does religion itself have modernising potential? Based on individual European and non-European countries - including Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Russia, the USA, South Korea and Brazil - the authors Detlef Pollack and Gergely Rosta examine the relationship between modernisation and religious change. The case analyses and comparative studies identify country-specific social constellations and processes as well as transnational patterns and correlations.
The result is not the development of a generally applicable universal theory, but rather the formulation of multiple theoretical elements that can be combined in different ways. They claim to explain not only the weakening of religious and ecclesiastical ties in the modern age - as secularisation theory does, for example - but also religious upswings.
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