SOC 222 - Secularization and Modern Society: The Demise of Religion?

FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2010-2011

For some years, secularization theory, the view that political and economic “modernization” inevitably produces religion’s demise, was nearly the consensus among social scientists. More recently, scholars have been forced to question this once common position. Religion seems to remain a powerful force in today’s world. This course explores this central debate in the sociology of religion.Eastwood.