This article provides a test of the secularization hypothesis, which argues that economic growth, industrialization, increased literacy and decreasing fertility depress religiosity. It focuses on the elections of the secular politicians who voted in favor of the separation between Church and State in the French Parliament in 1905. If the secularization hypothesis is correct, these secular polit...

in this article initially various theories about secularization and de-secularization universally and specially in iran have been described. then effects of higher education, democracy and consistency with political system empirically have been explored. hypothesis were examined with fifth waves of wvs data and structural equation modeling and displayed that despite of little effect of higher e...

peter berger (1929 - ), is among sociologists who has examined religion from sociological and theological perspectives, and has been the source of many impacts on the sociology of religion. berger is the pioneer of the theory of secularization and perhaps the most effective one in this regard; and his ideas is still used by many proponents of secularization. however, the change in his position ...

Secularization as a process of Western origin is basically an attempt at freedom from the excessive authority of the Church and at narrowing the borders of religion. According to the theory of secularization, with the influence of modernization there occurs a breakaway from religious thought and practice, and even from the metaphysical conceptions in all realms of human life. First the human mi...

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....

Unravelling Secularization: An International Study The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables) was employed to test for the determinants of this decisi...

In 1966 Hans Blumenberg published Die Legitimitat der Neuzeit, which launched the Lowith-Blumenberg debate over the nature of secularization and the legitimacy of the modern age. ' The widespread discussion the book generated prompted Blumenberg to prepare a revised and expanded three-volume edition between 1973 and 1976. A decade later, with the debate still going strong, Robert M. Wallace mad...

According to several international surveys Spain is among the western countries with the most negative views of Jews. While quantitative data on the topic accumulates, there is a significant lack of interpretative approaches that might explain the particular Spanish case. This paper 15 presents the background, methodology and major results of a discussion group-based study on antisemitism, whic...