Khaldoun--Do you know about this book: The Secular Revolution: Power,
Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life
(Paperback)
by Christian Smith (Editor) (California, 2003). I've heard good things
about it.
Steven Sherman
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Hi, Khaldoun,
Last year in my methods class, I used articles from ASR which engaged
secularization (citations following).
The articles are very empirical. In my opinion, the secularization
folks win the very narrow point that they make, which is that church
attendance in the US is vastly over-reported.
This ASR debate engendered some very good discussions about the limits
of survey research evidence and the operationalization of the
secularization concept.
By the way, I really liked your description of the course.
Best wishes,
Michael
Hadaway, Kirk C., Penny Long Marler, and Mark Chaves. 1993. "What the
Polls Don't Show: A
Closer Look at Church Attendance." American Sociological Review
58:741-752.
Caplow, T. 1998. "The Case of the Phantom Episcopalians." American
Sociological Review
63:112-113.
Hout, Michael and Andrew Greeley. 1998. "What Church Officials'
Reports Don't Show: Another
Look at Church Attendance Data." American Sociological Review
63:113-119.
Presser, Stanley and Linda Stinson. 1998. "Data Collection Mode and
Social Desirability Bias in
Self-Reported Religious Attendance." American Sociological Review
63:137-145.
Woodberry, Robert D. 1998. "When Surveys Lie and People Tell the
Truth: How Surveys Oversample Church
Attenders." American Sociological Review 63:119-122.
There are a few more articles/notes on this topic in this same ASR
issue.
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Subject: TEACHSOC: Re: Religion, Pluralism, and Modernity
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Keith A. Roberts, Ph.D.
Dept of Sociology & Anthropology
Hanover College
Hanover, IN 47243
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Hi all,
I'll be teaching an upper level course on the topic of
RELIGION AND MODERNITY in Fall 2006 and I wanted to
see if any of you may have suggestions on topics,
readings, out-of-class exercises... It's quite
abstract, but Macalester students handle these type of
courses well. Plus, the fact that most of my students
are secular and anti-religion makes me think that a
critical reading of secularism will be good for them
:-)
Khaldoun:
These are some of the key pieces if you want students to get into the
neo-secularization debate. Rodney Stark is among a rather large number
of sociologists in the U.S. who have been de-bunking the notion that
secularization has been occurring. Some of the sociology of religion
texts would also have summaries of these debates. I can send you a
summary from my own book if you are interested.
Secularism theory is dead:
Stark, Rodney
2000 "Secularization, R.P.I." Pp. 41-66 in The Secularization Debate.
Edited by William H. Swatos, Jr. and Daniel V. A. Olson. Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield.
Stark, Rodney and Laurence R. Iannaccone
1994 "A Supply-Side Reinterpretation of the 'Secularization' of
Europe." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (September):
230-252.
Secularism must be reinterpreted:
Dobbelaere, Karel
1981 Secularization: A Multidimensional Concept. Beverly Hills, CA:
Sage Publications.
2000 "Toward an Integrated Perspective of the Processes Related to the
Descriptive Concept of Secularization." Pp. 21-39 in The Secularization
Debate. Edited by William H. Swatos, Jr. and Daniel V. A. Olson.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Making sense of the neo-secularism debate
Chaves, Mark
1993 "Denominations as Dual Structures: An Organizational Analysis."
Sociology of Religion (Summer): 147-169.
1994 "Secularization as Declining Religious Authority." Social Forces
(March): 749-774.
Chaves, Mark and Phillip S. Gorski
2001 "Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation." Annual Review
of Sociology (27): 261-281.
Yamane, David
1997 "Secularization on Trial: In Defense of a Neosecularization
Paradigm." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (March):
109-122.
Keith
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Keith A. Roberts, Ph.D.
Dept of Sociology & Anthropology
Hanover College
Hanover, IN 47243
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Office: 812/ 866-7353
