The future of Christianity : reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization /
Martin, David, 1929-
The future of Christianity : reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization / by David Martin. - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011. - ix, 230 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
9781409406587 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781409406693 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781409406594 (ebook)
2010035263
Secularism.
Christianity and politics.
Christianity--21st century.
BL2747.8 / .M34 2011
261 Mar 2011
The future of Christianity : reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization / by David Martin. - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011. - ix, 230 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
9781409406587 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781409406693 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781409406594 (ebook)
2010035263
Secularism.
Christianity and politics.
Christianity--21st century.
BL2747.8 / .M34 2011
261 Mar 2011