Secularization Vindicated

In the 1960s, it was taken for granted that modernization eroded religion. 1980s, this consensus challenged by rational choice, supply-side, or market model proposed Rodney Stark and associates. particular, they argued UK hardly less religious then than had been in 1880. Clive Field’s compendium of statistical data allows us to test Stark’s approach religiosity UK. We follow with on Europe USA. While we may still argue over some precise levers, there is now so much evidence favor secularization regard as vindicated.