“For nearly three centuries, social scientists and assorted Western intellectuals have been promising the end of religion [...] Let us declare an end to social scientific faith in the theory of secularization, recognizing that it was the product of wishful thinking. After nearly three centuries of utterly failed prophecies, it seems time to carry the secularization doctrine to the graveyard of failed theories” (R. Stark, "Secularization, RIP", 1999).
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:49:19 +0000
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