Historicizing the Secularization Debate: Church, State, and Society in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Ca. 1300 to 1700
Historicizing the Secularization Debate: Church, State, and Society in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Ca. 1300 to 1700
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世俗化辩论的历史化：中世纪晚期和现代早期欧洲的教会、国家和社会，Ca。
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2000
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
P. Gorski
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作者：
P. Gorski
近年来，宗教社会学一直被关于世俗化的争论所困扰，新的理性选择范式（所谓的宗教经济模型）的倡导者与古典世俗化理论的捍卫者之间展开了对立。按照旧的范式，西方世界自中世纪以来变得越来越世俗化。根据新的范式，它变得越来越宗教化。我通过对宗教改革前后西欧宗教生活的详细考察，对这两种宗教发展的形象进行了检验。我的结论是，这一时期发生的社会结构和宗教体验的变化比新旧范式所暗示的要复杂得多，而且事实上，这两种范式既不像许多捍卫者所声称的那样对立，也不那么不可调和。西方社会有可能变得更加世俗，但宗教信仰却没有减弱。我讨论了两种竞争范式的局限性，并勾勒出更充分的宗教变革理论的轮廓。
In recent years, the sociology of religion has been consumed by a debate over secularization that pits advocates of a new, rational-choice paradigm (the so-called religious economies model) against defenders of classical secularization theory. According to the old paradigm, the Western world has become increasingly secular since the Middle Ages; according to the new paradigm, it has become increasingly religious. I put these two images of religious development to the test through a detailed examination of religious life in Western Europe before and after the Reformation. I conclude that the changes in social structure and religious experience that occurred during this period were considerably more complex than either the old or new paradigms suggest and, indeed, that the two paradigms are neither so opposed nor so irreconcilable as many of their defenders contend. It is possible, indeed probable, that Western society has become more secular without becoming less religious. I discuss the limitations of the two competing paradigms and sketch the outlines of a more adequate theory of religious change.