Martin, David,  1929- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781409406587 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781409406693 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781409406594 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010035263 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Secularism.<br/>Christianity and politics.<br/>Christianity--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL2747.8  / .M34 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>261 Mar 2011