How the West really lost God a new theory of secularization
| Main Author: | Eberstadt, Mary. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania :
Templeton Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Does secularization even exist?
- What is the conventional story line about how the West lost God? What are the problems with it?
- Circumstantial evidence for a "family factor", part one: the empirical links among marriage, childbearing, and religiosity
- Circumstantial evidence for the "family factor", part two: snapshots of the demographic record, or, How fundamental changes in family formation have accompanied the decline of Christianity in the West
- Circumstantial evidence for the "family factor", part three: because the "family factor" explains problems that existing theories of secularization do not explain, including what is known as "American exceptionalism"
- Assisted religious suicide: how some churches participated in their own downfall by ignoring the family factor
- Putting all the pieces together: toward an alternative anthropology of Christian belief
- The future of faith and family: the case for pessimism
- The future of faith and family: the case for optimism
- Conclusion: why does any of this matter?