Drawing on an international range of examples, Steve Bruce offers a comprehensive and up-to-date defence of the secularisation debate.
About the Author
Steve Bruce is the Professor of Sociology and Head of Department of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. He has also held visiting posts at the universities of Virginia and Edinburgh. He is one of the world's leading sociologists of religion and has recently been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Professor Bruce has published 13 books and over 90 articles. The following are his most recent books: Pray TV: Televangelism in America (1990), Religion in Modern Britain (1995), Religion in the Modern World (1996), Conservative Protestant Politics (1998), Sociology: A Very Short Introduction (1999), Choice and Religion (1999), Fundamentalism (Polity, 2001), and Politics and Religion (Polity, 2003).
Features
Offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of secularization, explaining clearly what the debate entails.
Draws on a diverse range of international examples, including Scottish fishermen, Virginian fundamentalists and Russian serfs.
Topics covered include religion and politics in the USA, the significance of New Age spirituality, the influence of eastern religions on the West, and the future of religion.
Discusses the work of Weber, Durkheim, Berger and Wilson, and elaborates on what they thought was happening to religion in the West.
Written by an internationally-known and widely respected sociologist of religion.
God is Dead offers an original and balanced overview of this key debate.
