The future of Christianity : reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization - Martin, David, 1929- (Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Secularism; Christianity and politics; Christianity -- 21st century