The future of Christianity : reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization / David Martin.
By: Martin, David.
Material type: BookPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011Description: ix, 230 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781409406587 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9781409406693 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Secularism | Christianity and politics | Christianity -- 21st centuryItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due |
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General Books | General Shelf | English | BL 2747.8 M379 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: Christianity and the world, the religious and the secular -- Secularization and the future of Catholicism and Protestantism -- Master narratives and the future of Christianity -- Pentecostalism: transnational voluntarism in the global religious economy -- Has secularization gone into reverse? -- Religious responses to modes of secularism -- Science and secularization -- An Eastern European pattern of secularization? -- East Germany: the world's most secular society -- Religion and politics; democracy and violence -- The religious and the political -- Christianity, violence and democracy -- Protestantism and democracy -- Appendix: multiple ironies and necessary paradoxes: a review of religion, fanaticism and violence.
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