Sacred and Secular, Second Edition Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí ISBN13: 9781304188809

ISBN13: 9781304188809

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Richard Lion Houdershell

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Sacred and Secular, Second Edition Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí ISBN13: 9781304188809Seminal nineteenth century thinkers predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance with the emergence of industrial society. The belief that religion was dying became the conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century. The traditional secularization thesis needs updating, however, religion has not disappeared and is unlikely to do so. Nevertheless, the concept of secularization captures an important part of