The future of Christianity : reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization
Martin, David 1929-
The future of Christianity : reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization created by David Martin - Farnham Ashgate 2011 - 230 pages 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
This text offers a mature assessment of themes preoccupying David Martin over some 50 years, complementing his book 'On Secularization'. Martin deploys secularization as an omnibus world bringing many dimensions into play.
9781409406587 9781409406693 (pbk.)
Secularism
Christianity and politics
Christianity--21st century
BL2747.8 MAR
The future of Christianity : reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization created by David Martin - Farnham Ashgate 2011 - 230 pages 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
This text offers a mature assessment of themes preoccupying David Martin over some 50 years, complementing his book 'On Secularization'. Martin deploys secularization as an omnibus world bringing many dimensions into play.
9781409406587 9781409406693 (pbk.)
Secularism
Christianity and politics
Christianity--21st century
BL2747.8 MAR