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"'Secularization' sounds simple, a decline in the power of religion. Yet, the history of the term is controversial and multi-faceted; it has been useful to both religious believers and non-believers and has been deployed by scholars to make sense of a variety of aspects of cultural and social change. This book will introduce the reader to this variety and show how secularization bears on the contemporary politics of religion. Secularization addresses the sociological classics' ambivalent accounts of the future of religion, later and more robust sociological claims about religious decline, and the most influential philosophical secularization thesis, which says that the dominant ideas of modern thought are in fact religious ones in a secularized form. The book outlines some shortcomings of these accounts in the light of historical inquiry and comparative sociology; examines claims that some religions are 'resistant to secularization'; and analyses controversies in the politics of religion, in particular over the relationship between Christianity and Islam and over the implicitly religious character of some modern political movements. By giving equal attention to both sociological and philosophical accounts of secularization, and equal weight to ideas, institutions and practices, this book introduces complicated ideas in a digestible format. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in making unusual connections within sociology, anthropology, philosophy, theology and political theory"--

It is increasingly clear that histories of secularization are not simply dispassionate descriptions of the decline of religious belief and practice in the West. Rather, such narratives often seek to celebrate secularization, promote some version of it, lament it, or otherwise oppose it in favour of a programme of desecularization or resacralization. The aim of this book is to identify some of the major genres of the history of secularization and to explore their historical contexts, normative commitments, and tendential purposes.ã The contributors to the volume offer different perspectives on these questions, not least because a number of them are themselves participants in the cultural-political programs described above. The primary purpose of this book, however, is the identification of such programs rather than their promotion. Overall, the collection seeks to bring analytical clarity to ongoing debates about secularization and help explain the co-existence of apparently conflicting stories about the origins of Western modernity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Intellectual History Review journal

Author's preface to the Arabic edition (1995) -- Part I. Fundamentalism and secularization: -- 1. What is fundamentalism? -- -- 2. What is secularization? -- -- 3. Fundamentalism and secularization in the contemporary Middle East -- -- 4. Postmodernism and fundamentalism -- Part II. Essays: -- 5. The concept of the good in Islamic philosophy -- -- 6. Philosophy in North Africa.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: An Interview with Mourad Wahba (2019) -- Translator's Preface to the English Edition -- Author's Preface to the Arabic Edition (1995) -- Part I: Fundamentalism and Secularization -- Chapter 1: What Is Fundamentalism? -- Chapter 2: What Is Secularization? -- Chapter 3: Fundamentalism and Secularization in the Contemporary Middle East -- Chapter 4: Postmodernism and Fundamentalism -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Essays -- Chapter 5: The Concept of the Good in Islamic Philosophy -- Chapter 6: Philosophy in North Africa -- Index.

"A thought-provoking collection of essays and lectures by one of the most perceptive Italian cultural critics of the period after World War Two. The Age of Secularization is a collection of eleven essays and lectures by Augusto Del Noce, which originally appeared in print between 1964 and 1969 and which Del Noce himself selected and re-published as a book in 1970. By that time he had already established his reputation as one of Italy's foremost historians of ideas and political thinkers, and The Age of Secularization was quickly recognized as one of the most original and penetrating attempts to interpret the cultural and political turmoil of the late 1960's. Among other topics, Del Noce discusses the student protests of 1968, the counter-culture of the sixties, the significance of the sexual revolution, the nature of the technological society and the relationship between Christianity and modern culture. The Age of Secularization documents the encounter, so to speak, between a key period of contemporary history and the full intellectual maturity of one of its most perceptive observers. This is one of the reasons why it remains surprisingly relevant and fresh almost fifty years later."--

This book explores the concept of diffused religion as it is found in contemporary society, resulting from a vast process of religious socialisation that continues to pervade our cultural reality. It provides a critical engagement with a framework of non-institutional religion that is based on values largely shared in society by being diffused through primary and secondary socialisation. Cipriani also contends that these very values which give form to diffused religion can also be seen in themselves as their own kind of religion. As a result, they go beyond secularisation and favour the religious continuum extending around the world of diffused religions. This work will be of great interest to scholars in the Sociology of Religion and to anyone wanting to learn more about the social aspects of religion.

Intro -- Diffused Religion -- Foreword -- Contents -- Part I The Basics of Diffused Religion -- 1 The Theory of Diffused Religion -- Introduction -- An Initial Approach to the Theory of Diffused Religion -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Socialization and Diffused Religion -- Introduction -- The Value of Inheritance -- Culture, Socialization and Education -- The Variables of Socialization -- The Content of Religions -- The Resilience of Religious Belief -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Values and Global Society -- Introduction -- Cognitive, Affective and Selective Dimension -- Constitution of Interests -- Values as Independent/Dependent Variables -- Ethics and Values -- Universality of Values -- Religious Ideologies -- Secular Impact -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Diffused Secular Religiosity -- Introduction -- An Ante Litteram Diffused Religion: Hegel's Volksreligion -- Towards a Return to the Axial Age? -- Religion as a Personal-God Experience -- Beyond Invisible Religion -- The Religiosity of Atheism as a Consequence of Secularization -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 World Diffused Religions -- Introduction -- The European Galaxy Twixt Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism -- The Diffused Religions of Eastern Europe -- Islamic and Post-Secular Europe -- Europe and India Compared and Contrasted -- The Latin American Context -- The Urban Space as the Nursery of Religions Diffusion -- From Diffused Religion to World Diffused Religions -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Diffused Religion in Practice -- 6 Religion and Politics: A Peculiar Case -- Introduction -- The Starting Point of Diffused Religion -- Political Events as Indicators -- Ethics and Politics -- Religious and Political Pluralism -- An Emblematic Case -- The "Religious Field" -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Religion and Values -- Introduction -- Church and State