List of Tables and Figures
Introduction
Part I: Theoretical Reflections
1: Reflections on the Concept of Modernity
2: Reflections on the Concept of Religion
3: Key Questions and Methodological Preliminaries
Part II: Religious Decline in Western Europe?
4: Between Dechurchification and Religious Persistence: West
Germany
5: A Stronghold of Catholicism: Italy
6: Religion in Free Fall: The Netherlands
Part III: Religious Renaissance in Eastern Europe?
7: Russia: Return of Religion
8: East Germany: No Signs of a Turnaround
9: Poland: Unexpected Vitality after the Fall of Communism
Part IV: Religious Change outside Europe: Three Case Studies
10: Religion and Religiosity in the US: A Contrast Case to
Europe?
11: South Korea: The Simultaneity of Modernization and
Christianization
12: Charismatic, Pentecostal, and Evangelical Movements in Europe,
the US and Brazil
Part V: Systematic Perspectives
13: Macro- and Microsociological Explanations for Differences
between Countries
14: Patterns and Determinants of Religious Change in the Modern
Period: Towards a Multi-Paradigmatic Theory
Bibliography
Detlef Pollack is Professor of Sociology of Religion at Münster
University. He is speaker of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion
and Politics in Modern und Premodern Cultures" at Münster
University. His research focuses on religious change in Western and
Eastern Europe and in the US and political culture in Eastern and
Central East Europe. His publications include The Role of Religion
in Modern Societies (co-edited with Daniel V. A. Olson;
Routledge, 2011) and Handbuch Religionssoziologie (Springer, 2017).
Gergely Rosta was Research Fellow at Münster University from 2009
to 2017. He is currently Associate Professor in Sociology at the
Pázmány Péter Catholic
University in Budapest. His research interests include religious
change in Central and Eastern Europe, youth religiosity, and
quantitative research methods.
this book is a jolting "must-read" for all students of religion,
especially Religious Studies scholars. The broad lesson gleaned
from Pollack and Rosta's multi-layered study is that while we can
and should subject theories of secularization to critical
examination, findings on the ground keep suggesting that modernity
brings with it great challenges to the relevance and vitality of
religious life.
*Shifa Amina Noor, Reading Religion*
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