Alan Wolfe is a smart writer, always worth reading. His latest piece, in the Atlantic Monthly’s special issue on religion, is especially worth reading, considering the magazine’s influence, his own ...

Scholars studying religion as a social institution have struggled to explain two contradictory trends. Secularization theory posits America as increasingly less religious, yet religious participation ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract An influential theory in the sociology of religion holds that the separation of church and state forces religious organizations to compete ...

(RNS) — In ‘Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society,’ three sociologists lay out a theory that can be summed up in a simple phrase: Modernization creates problems for religion. (RNS) — The claim ...

(The Conversation) — Secularization has fascinated sociologists for 200 years – but that doesn’t mean they always agree on what it is, or how much it’s happening. (The Conversation) — About six months ...

According to new research in the sociology of religion, secularization has increased rapidly in the past ten years, even in countries that were previously strongly Christian. “We are observing a rapid ...

Although the rising percentage of Americans, who answer “none” when surveyed about their religious affiliations, has attracted considerable attention over the last few years, the fact remains that ...

How 20th-century novelists regarded secularization. The novel, Georg Lukacs claimed, is “the epic of a world that has been abandoned by God.” Most accounts of the modernist novel tend to rely on a ...

"Religion plays a less important role in American life." Or maybe, "Religion declines as powerful source of American public authority." I doubt those headlines would have garnered the attention the ...

About six months ago, Americans’ belief in God hit an all-time low. According to a 2022 Gallup survey, the percentage of people who believe in God has dropped from 98% in the 1950s to 81% today; among ...