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The city, the church, and the 1960s : On secularization theory and the Swedish translation of Harvey Cox’s The Secular City

Jansson, Anton LU (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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Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia : Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations - Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations
editor
Östling, Johan ; Olsen, Niklas and Larsson Heidenblad, David
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18 pages
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Routledge
ISBN
9780367894559
9781003019275
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Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge
Humanities in motion: Circulation of knowledge in postwar Sweden and West Germany
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English
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yes
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https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003019275/chapters/10.4324/9781003019275-13
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  author       = {{Jansson, Anton}},
  booktitle    = {{Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia : Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations}},
  editor       = {{Östling, Johan and Olsen, Niklas and Larsson Heidenblad, David}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{173--190}},
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  title        = {{The city, the church, and the 1960s : On secularization theory and the Swedish translation of Harvey Cox’s The Secular City}},
  url          = {{https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003019275/chapters/10.4324/9781003019275-13}},
  year         = {{2020}},
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