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Religion in Secular Society: Fifty Years On
Bryan Wilson
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Description for Religion in Secular Society: Fifty Years On
Hardcover. A reissue Religion in Secular Society (1966) by Bryan Wilson (1926-2004), a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford for thirty years and one of the leading sociologists of religion of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Bruce, Steve. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRQA; JFSR; JHBT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 202 x 24. Weight in Grams: 398.
Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson's Religion in Secular Society (1966) remains a seminal work. It is one of the clearest articulations of the secularization thesis: the claim that modernizations brings with it fundamental changes in the nature and status of religion. For Wilson, secularization refers to the fact that religion has lost influence at the societal, the institutional, and the individual level. Individual secularization is about the loss of authority of the Churches to define what people should believe, practise and accept as moral principles guiding their lives. In other words, individual piety may still persist, however, ... Read more
Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson's Religion in Secular Society (1966) remains a seminal work. It is one of the clearest articulations of the secularization thesis: the claim that modernizations brings with it fundamental changes in the nature and status of religion. For Wilson, secularization refers to the fact that religion has lost influence at the societal, the institutional, and the individual level. Individual secularization is about the loss of authority of the Churches to define what people should believe, practise and accept as moral principles guiding their lives. In other words, individual piety may still persist, however, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
398g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198788379
SKU
V9780198788379
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About Bryan Wilson
Bryan R. Wilson, (1926 - 2004), was Reader Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Oxford and President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (1971). He became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1963. Steve Bruce is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. His previous publications include Secularization: ... Read more
Reviews for Religion in Secular Society: Fifty Years On
Bruce's efforts to bring Wilson's sociological descriptions to a new audience are to be commended and fully considered.
Clement Yung Wen, Expository Times
Religion in Secular Society outlined in detail some of the empirical evidence emerging in the 1960s that the Church of England was facing very serious decline, even though few senior figures in the Church at ... Read more
Clement Yung Wen, Expository Times
Religion in Secular Society outlined in detail some of the empirical evidence emerging in the 1960s that the Church of England was facing very serious decline, even though few senior figures in the Church at ... Read more