Bruce, Steve;
Voas, David;
(2023)
Secularization Vindicated.
Religions
, 14
(3)
, Article 301. 10.3390/rel14030301.
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Abstract
In the 1960s, it was taken for granted that modernization eroded religion. In the 1980s, this consensus was challenged by the rational choice, supply-side, or market model proposed by Rodney Stark and associates. In particular, they argued that the UK was hardly less religious then than it had been in 1880. Clive Field’s compendium of statistical data allows us to test Stark’s approach to the religiosity of the UK. We follow this with data on Europe and the USA. While we may still argue over some of the precise levers, there is now so much evidence in favor of the secularization approach that we regard it as vindicated.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Secularization Vindicated |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/rel14030301 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14030301 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | secularization; British religiosity; European religiosity; US religiosity; fuzzy fidelity; rational choice; Rodney Stark |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167128 |
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