01857ctm a22003254a 4500 16421703 OSt 20250616143939.0 ta 170919s2011 enk b 001 0 eng 2010035263 9781409406587 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781409406693 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781409406594 (ebook) DLC DLC DLC BL2747.8 .M34 2011 261 Mar 2011 22 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. Secularism. Christianity and politics. Christianity 21st century. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg BK ddc 8076 8076 0 0 ddc 0 0 EGSTL EGSTL CIRC 2025-03-09 0 261 Mar 2011 17823 2025-06-30 00:00:00 2025-03-09 BK