The future of Christianity: reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularisation

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements and Sources -- Part 1 Secularization and the Future of Christianity -- 1 Christianity and the World, the Religious and the Secular -- 2 Secularization and the Future of Catholicism and Protestantism -- 3 Master Narratives and the Future of Christianity -- 4 Pentecostalism: Transnational Voluntarism in the Global Religious Economy -- 5 Has Secularization gone into Reverse? -- 6 Religious Responses to Modes of Secularism -- 7 Science and Secularization -- Part 2 Case Studies of Secularization -- 8 An Eastern European Pattern of Secularization? -- 9 East Germany: The World's Most Secular Society -- Part 3 Religion and Politics -- Democracy and Violence -- 10 The Religious and the Political -- 11 Christianity, Violence and Democracy -- 12 Protestantism and Democracy -- 13 Multiple Ironies and Necessary Paradoxes: A Review of Religion, Fanaticism, and Violence -- Name Index -- Subject Index.