Religion and Modernization: Sociologists and Historians Debate the Secularization Thesis.

Abstract

Secularization - the orthodox model, Roy Wallis and Steve Bruce a revisionist approach to religious change, Callum Brown secular cities? - a comparison of Berlin, London, and New York in the later 19th century, Hugh McLeod secularization and census data, Robin Gill recent transformations in English catholicism - evidence of secularization?, Michael Hornsby-Smith an unsecular America, Roger Finke pluralism and religious vitality, Steve Bruce reflections on a many-sided controversy, Bryan Wilson.