TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin,David
TI  - The future of Christianity: reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization 
SN  - 9781409406587 
AV  - BL2747.8 MAR 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Farnham
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Christianity and politics
KW  - Christianity
KW  - 21st century
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -