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Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide [Repost]

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Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide [Repost]

Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart - Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide
Published: 2004-09-27 | ISBN: 0521548721, 052183984X | PDF | 348 pages | 3 MB


August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the emergence of industrial society. Their belief that religion was dying became conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century. However, this analysis reveals that the traditional secularization thesis needs updating now. Religion has not disappeared and is unlikely to do so, even though secularization has had a surprisingly powerful negative impact on human fertility rates.