Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

The Dynamics of Religious Economies 105 Table 8.1.Competition and Church Attendance in New York Towns, 1865 Number of denominati ...

106 Roger Finke and Rodney Stark in Massachusetts who would declare such a system to be his first choice” (Blau 1950: 188). When ...

The Dynamics of Religious Economies 107 established church to increase its appeal to the people. When Protestant competition fir ...

108 Roger Finke and Rodney Stark to go to mass and to keep their opinions to themselves” (Armstrong 1937/1967: 38). Beginning wi ...

The Dynamics of Religious Economies 109 The final proposition stressed that conflict can substitute for competition in gen- erat ...

CHAPTER NINE Historicizing the Secularization Debate An Agenda for Research Philip S. Gorski The trends are quite clear: In most ...

Historicizing the Secularization Debate 111 both historically and sociologically. This means studying the ebbs and flows of sec- ...

112 Philip S. Gorski and educated city-dwellers – by some standards, the most “modernized” sectors of society – seemed to unders ...

Historicizing the Secularization Debate 113 Europeans? It is not at all clear that these differences in religious observance can ...

114 Philip S. Gorski findings, the leading proponents of the REM claim to have disproven the secularization thesis and argue tha ...

Historicizing the Secularization Debate 115 populace that is Catholic: The highest levels of religious participation are to be f ...

116 Philip S. Gorski model. I will refer to their approach as the sociopolitical conflict model (henceforth: SPCM).^4 In the Eng ...

Historicizing the Secularization Debate 117 regulation created a situation more conducive to the growth of religious pluralism, ...

118 Philip S. Gorski the SPCM suggests a much more concrete and clear-cut explanation of macro-societal secularization, an appro ...

Historicizing the Secularization Debate 119 or predestination (e.g., Calvinism). Thus, it could be that the observed variations ...

120 Philip S. Gorski of the divine were not easily reconciled with the realities of the world: blood-kin ver- sus coreligionists ...

Historicizing the Secularization Debate 121 levels of church membership in colonial New England indicate a low level of “religio ...

122 Philip S. Gorski varies not only in its quantity but also in its quality, thereby avoiding the anachro- nisms that often pla ...

CHAPTER TEN Escaping the Procrustean Bed A Critical Analysis of the Study of Religious Organizations, 1930–2001 Patricia M. Y. C ...

124 Patricia M. Y. Chang in the First Amendment have had such a unique influence in shaping the dynam- ics of religious institut ...