How the West really lost God : a new theory of secularization / Mary Eberstadt.
Material type: TextPublisher: West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania : Templeton Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: x, 257 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781599473796 (hardbound : alk. paper)
- 270.8 23
- BT83.7 .E24 2013
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks | R (Reference collection) | R:BT83.7 .E24 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2023-7023 |
Includes index.
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?
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