The city, the church, and the 1960s : On secularization theory and the Swedish translation of Harvey Cox’s The Secular City
(2020) p.173-190- Abstract
- In 1994, sociologist of religion José Casanova wrote in the introduction to his influential book Public Religions in the Modern World that a paradigm shift had occurred in his field. His colleagues had abandoned an earlier paradigm “with the same uncritical haste with which they previously embraced it.” 1 What he had in mind was the theory of secularisation: that is, the notion that with modernisation, religion would disappear from the public sphere, if not altogether. The theory was now, he claimed, something of a myth in the eyes of many of his colleagues, rather than the accepted knowledge it used to be.
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- author
- Jansson, Anton LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia : Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations - Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations
- editor
- Östling, Johan ; Olsen, Niklas and Larsson Heidenblad, David
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367894559
- 9781003019275
- project
- Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge
- Humanities in motion: Circulation of knowledge in postwar Sweden and West Germany
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 1951d375-64dc-4b89-9e9b-4c83d73c5c12
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- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003019275/chapters/10.4324/9781003019275-13
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- 2019-05-10 09:56:39
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