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- Provides a renewed attempt to learn from the failure of the classic and once dominant secularization theories
- Introduces inter-state relations, state agency and inter-religious relations into the debate about secularization and historical religious change
- Offers the first historical sociological case study of the teaching of religion of a European state from 1700 until today
Part of the book series: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies (BOREFRRERE, volume 5)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Danish Road through Modernity – Transformations of the Sacred Canopy in Danish Schools from 1721–2006
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Since 2001, history has proven the classic and once dominant theories of secularization wrong. Instead of abandoning the subject of secularization, Niels Reeh’s Secularization Revisited demonstrates how the collapse of formerly dominant secularization theories indicates fundamental conceptual challenges within sociology. Through a historical sociological case study of the political decision-making concerning the teaching of religion in Denmark from 1721 to 2006, Reeh explains why sociology of religion and sociology more generally should pay more attention to interstate relations, state-form and state-agency. The Danish state’s interest in its inhabitants’ religion over the last three centuries responded not only to religious motives but to concerns about foreign relations and the survival of the state.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Department of History, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Niels Reeh
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Secularization Revisited - Teaching of Religion and the State of Denmark
Book Subtitle: 1721-2006
Authors: Niels Reeh
Series Title: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39608-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39606-4Published: 12 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81921-1Published: 04 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39608-8Published: 03 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2214-5281
Series E-ISSN: 2214-529X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 206
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Religious Studies, general, Sociology of Education, Religion and Education, History, general