The reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization Martin, David 1929- creator text bibliography enk Farnham, Surrey, England Burlington, VT Ashgate c2011 2011 monographic eng

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ix, 230 p. ; 24 cm. 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. by David Martin. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Secularism Christianity and politics Christianity 21st century BL2747.8 .M34 2011 261 Mar 2011 9781409406587 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781409406693 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781409406594 (ebook) 2010035263 DLC 170919 20250616143939.0 16421703