Religion and Modernity: An International Comparison
Religion and Modernity: An International Comparison
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宗教与现代性：国际比较
DOI：
10.1093/oso/9780198801665.001.0001
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发表时间：
2017
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通讯作者：
Gergely Rosta
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作者：
Pollack;Detlef;Gergely Rosta
这不是一本提供现代社会中宗教变化的新的综合理论的书，而是一本发展有助于理解某些当代宗教发展的理论元素的书。大多数宗教社会学的研究方法都倾向于强调宗教衰落或宗教兴起的过程。例如，世俗化理论通常包括一些相关因素——如功能分化、经济富裕或社会平等——以解释宗教变化。然而，这种理论的实证分析结果似乎是预先确定的，即宗教的社会相关性正在下降。相比之下，美国宗教社会学家设计的宗教市场模型则倾向于发现无处不在的宗教热潮过程。宗教与现代性：国际比较避免了纯粹基于理论的宗教变迁视角。因此，Detlef Pollack和Gergely Rosta不是从理论命题开始，而是从问题开始。作者提出了宗教在各个方面的社会意义在现代社会中是如何变化的问题，并解释了哪些因素和条件促成了这些变化。
This is not a book that provides a new integrated theory of religious change in modern societies, but rather one that develops theoretical elements that contribute to the understanding of some contemporary religious developments. Most of the approaches in sociology of religion are prone to emphasise either processes of religious decline or of religious upswing. For example, secularization theory usually includes a couple of relevant factors—such as functional differentiation, economic affluence or social equality—in order to account for religious change. However, the result of such a theory's empirical analyses seems to be certain in advance, namely that the social relevance of religion is decreasing. In contrast, the religious market model devised by sociologists of religion in the US is inclined to detect everywhere processes of religious upsurge. Religion and Modernity: An International Comparison avoids a purely theoretically based perspective on religious changes. For this reason, Detlef Pollack and Gergely Rosta do not begin with theoretical propositions but with questions. The authors raise the question of how the social significance of religion in its various facets has changed in modern societies, and explain what factors and conditions have contributed to these changes.