Part I. Understanding Secularization: 1. The secularization debate 2. Measuring secularization 3. Comparing secularization worldwide Part II. Case Studies of Religion and Politics: 4. The puzzle of secularization in the United States and Western Europe 5. A religious revival in post-communist Europe? 6. Religion and politics in the Muslim world Part III. The Consequences of Secularization: 7. Religion, the Protestant ethic, and moral values 8. Religious organizations and social capital 9. Religious parties and electoral behavior Part IV. Conclusions: 10. Secularization and its consequences 11. Re-examining the theory of existential security 12. Re-examining evidence for the security thesis.

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Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide

This article explores the social theory and consequent methodology that underpins studies of transnational migration. First, we propose a social field approach to the study of migration and distinguish between ways of being and ways of belonging in that field. Second, we argue that assimilation and enduring transnational ties are neither incompatible nor binary opposites. Third, we highlight social processes and institutions that are routinely obscured by traditional migration scholarship but that become clear when we use a transnational lens. Finally, we locate our approach to migration research within a larger intellectual project, taken up by scholars of transnational processes in many fields, to rethink and reformulate the concept of society such that it is no longer automatically equated with the boundaries of a single nationstate. Social scientists have long been interested in how immigrants are incorporated into new countries. In Germany and France, scholars’ expectations that foreigners will assimilate is a central piece of public policy. In the United States, immigration scholars initially argued that to move up the socioeconomic ladder, immigrants would have to abandon their unique customs, language, values, and homeland ties and identities. Even when remaining ethnic became more acceptable, most researchers assumed that the importance of homeland ties would eventually fade. To be Italian American or Irish American would ultimately reflect ethnic pride within a multicultural United States rather than enduring relations to an ancestral land. Now scholars increasingly recognize that some migrants and their descendants remain strongly influenced by their continuing ties to their home country or by social networks that stretch across national borders. They see

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Conceptualizing simultaneity: a transnational social field perspective on society

Empirical research on the determinants of economic growth typically neglects the influence of religion. To fill this gap, this study uses international survey data on religiosity for a broad panel of countries to investigate the effects of church attendance and religious beliefs on economic growth. To isolate the direction of causation from religiosity to economic performance, the estimation relies on instrumental variables suggested by an analysis in which church attendance and religious beliefs are the dependent variables. The instruments are variables for the presence of state religion and for regulation of the religion market, the composition of religious adherence, and an indicator of religious pluralism. Results show that economic growth responds positively to religious beliefs, notably beliefs in hell and heaven, but negatively to church attendance. That is, growth depends on the extent of believing relative to belonging. These results accord with a model in which religious beliefs influence individual traits that enhance economic performance. The beliefs are an output of the religion sector, and church attendance is an input to this sector. Hence, for given beliefs, higher church attendance signifies more resources used up by the religion sector

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Religion and Economic Growth across Countries

Religion has a two-way interaction with political economy With religion viewed as a dependent variable, a central question is how economic development and political institutions affect religious participation and beliefs With religion viewed as an independent variable, a key issue is how religiosity affects individual characteristics, such as work ethic, honesty and thrift, and thereby influences economic performance In this paper, we sketch previous studies of this two-way interaction but focus on our ongoing quantitative research with international data

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Religion and Economy

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

Frontispiece: Ordinary God, : Donald Davie. Foreword: Professor David Martin. 1. Introduction. 2. A Rapidly Changing Context. 3. The Sacred and the Secular: Religious Generations in Post-war Britain. 4. Religious Constituencies. 5. The Ordinary Gods of British Society. 6. Believing without Belonging: Variations on a Theme. 7. Handing on the Tradition: The Significance of Age and Gender. 8. Church and State: A Framework for Discussion. 9. Religious Professionals: Lay and Ordained. 10. Religion and Modernity: A Theoretical Postscript. Bibliography and References. Index.

Religion in Britain Since 1945: Believing Without Belonging

Introduction Chapter One. Facts and Figures: a profile of religion in modern Europe Chapter Two. Theoretical Perspectives Chapter Three. Vicarious Memory 1: the churches Chapter Four. Vicarious Memory 2: the church-goers Chapter Five. Precarious Memory: religion in the education systems of Europe Chapter Six. Mediated Memory: religion and the European media Chapter Seven. Alternative Memories 1: pluralism and the law Chapter Eight. Alternative Memories 2: religious innovations Chapter Nine. Aesthetic or Symbolic Memory: the cultural sphere Chapter Ten. Conclusion

Religion in Modern Europe: A Memory Mutates

Les statistiques concernant l'appartenance aux institutions religieuses et celles qui, d'autre part, sont relatives aux modeles de croyance offrent deux indicateurs distincts, mais lies, de la religiosite. Le modele britannique de la fin du XXe s. presente un net desequilibre entre la baisse de l'appartenance et celle, beaucoup plus lente, de la croyance. L'A. examine differents parametres : l'âge, la religion de la classe ouvriere...

Believing without Belonging: Is This the Future of Religion in Britain?:

Contents: Introduction Religious America, secular Europe? Variation1: contrasting histories Variation 2: different intellectual traditions Variation 3: institutional carriers Variation 4: social difference So what? Policy implications Bibliography Index.

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Religion in Britain Since 1945: Believing Without Belonging

Religion in Modern Europe: A Memory Mutates

Believing without Belonging: Is This the Future of Religion in Britain?:

Religious America, Secular Europe?: A Theme and Variations

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