The charismatic movement and the secularization thesis

Religion

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 223-232

  Bruce, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0013169335     PISSN: 0048721X     EISSN: 10961151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/reli.1998.0130     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Roy Wallis and Steve Bruce, ‘Secularization: trends, data, and theory’, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion 3 (1991), pp. 1–31
2. Steve Bruce, Religion in the Modern World: From Cathedrals to Cults, Oxford, Oxford University Press 1996.
3. See Bryan Wilson, Religion in Secular Society, London, CA Watts 1966.
4. Peter L. Berger, The Social Reality of Religion, London, Faber and Faber 1969.
5. Peter L. Berger, The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities Religious AYrmation, London, Collins 1980.
6. Roy Wallis, The Road to Total Freedom: A Sociological Analysis of Scientology, London, Heinemann 1976, pp. 11-18.
7. Bryan Wilson, ‘Religion and the churches in America’, in W. McLoughlin and R. N. Bellah (eds), Religion in America, Boston, Houghton MiZin 1968, pp. 73–110.
8. For example, Karla Poewe, ‘Max Weber and Charismatic Christianity’, in W. H. Swatos Jr (ed.), Twentieth Century World Religious Movements in Neo-Weberian Perspective, Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press 1993, pp. 159–73.
9. Andrew Walker, who is the authority on British Restorationism, has privately expressed scepticism about some of the claims made by Restoration leaders for the size of their followings.
10. The larger question of how justified is my estimate of secularization is dealt with in detail in Steve Bruce, ‘The truth about religion in Britain, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 34 (1995), pp. 17–30
11. ‘Religion in Britain at the close of the 20th century: a challenge to the silver lining perspective’, Journal for Contemporary Religion 11 (1996), pp. 261–75
12. ‘The pervasive world-view: religion in pre-modern Britain’, British Journal of Sociology 48 (1997), pp. 667–80.
13. Callum Brown, ‘A revisionist approach to religious change’, in Steve Bruce (ed.), Religion and Modernization, Oxford, Oxford University Press 1992, pp. 31–58.
14. David Martin, A General Theory of Secularization, Oxford, Basil Blackwell 1978.
15. Glanmor Williams, The Welsh and Their Religion, CardiV, University of Wales Press 1991, p. 14.
16. This is an important argument which can be followed in these publications: Steve Bruce, ‘Religion and rational choice’, Sociology of Religion 54 (1993), pp. 193–205
17. Rodney Stark and Laurence R. Iannaccone, ‘A supply-side reinterpretation of the “secularization” of Europe’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 33 (1994), pp. 230–52
18. Roger Finke and Laurence R. Iannaccone, ‘Supply-side explanations for religious change’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 527 (1993), pp 27–39.
19. Bryan Wilson, Contemporary Transformations of Religion. Oxford, Oxford University Press 1976, p.
20. Peter Brierley, Peter Butt, Sharon Selvon and Cathy Noble, The Body Book, 4th Edition, Romford, Team Spirit Publications 1993.
21. Steve Bruce, Religion in Modern Britain, Oxford, Oxford University Press 1995.
22. P. J. Waller, Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool 1868–1939, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press 1981
23. Frank Neal, Sectarian Violence: The Liverpool Experience 1819–1914, Manchester, Manchester University Press 1988.