Next, people report that religion becomes less important in their lives. Finally, formal religious affiliation declines. They ...

Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" According to new studies in the sociology of religion, the importance of religion and religious institutions has declined dramatically across the world in ...

Religion is spreading in the third world, writes Rachel M. McCleary, director of the Project on Religion, Political Economy, and Society at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International ...

An empty church in Hiers-Brouage, France. 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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This research note contributes to an evaluation of the validity of secularization theory by studying the relationship between economic ...

(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 ...

In 2019, three sociologists met for dinner while at a conference in St. Louis. The friends and colleagues discussed their shared fascination with secular life: living outside of religious affiliation, ...

The secularization of U.S. society — the waning of religious faith, practice and affiliation — is continuing at a dramatic and historically unprecedented pace. While many may consider such a ...

Religion is a human universal. Every society that has ever existed has had some form of organized religion that has dominated its culture and often its government as well. For this reason, many ...

(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 ...

Religion is a human universal. Every society that has ever existed has had some form of organized religion that has dominated its culture and often its government as well. For this reason, many ...