The future of Christianity: reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization/

Main Author: Martin, David, 1929-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2011
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Christianity and the world, the religious and the secular
  • Secularization and the future of Catholicism and Protestantism
  • Master narratives and the future of Christianity
  • Pentecostalism: transnational voluntarism in the global religious economy
  • Has secularization gone into reverse?
  • Religious responses to modes of secularism
  • Science and secularization
  • An Eastern European pattern of secularization?
  • East Germany: the world's most secular society
  • Religion and politics; democracy and violence
  • The religious and the political
  • Christianity, violence and democracy
  • Protestantism and democracy
  • Appendix: multiple ironies and necessary paradoxes: a review of religion, fanaticism and violence.