Talk:Ronald Inglehart

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- KenWalker | Talk 08:13, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

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Information about the argument in Sacred and Secular was copy-pasted from the author's own review. Which is not acceptable. I removed some (see below), and edited the rest to meet general neutral and informative standards. Wikipedia is not a commercial channgel, and Inglehart's work is controversial at best.

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Many nineteenth-century thinkers -- Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud -- predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the emergence of industrial society. This belief that religion was dying became the conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century.

During the last decade, however, the secularization thesis has experienced sustained challenge. Critics point to multiple indicators of religious health and vitality today, from the continued popularity of churchgoing in the United States, to the emergence of New Age spirituality in Western Europe, the surge of fundamentalist movements and Islamic parties in the Muslim world, the evangelical revival sweeping through Latin America, and the widespread ethno-religious conflicts in international affairs.

The traditional secularization thesis needs updating: religion has not disappeared and appears unlikely to do so. Yet the concept of secularization arguably captures an important part of what is going on. Sacred and Secular develops a theory of secularization and existential security, building on key elements of traditional sociological theories and revising others. This book demonstrates that: (1) The publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during the past fifty years; but (2) The world as a whole now has more people with traditional religious views than ever before -- and they constitute a growing proportion of the world's population. Though these two propositions may seem contradictory, they are not. The fact that the first proposition is true, helps account for the second — because secularization has a surprisingly powerful negative impact on human fertility rates.

--Yanemiro 13:46, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

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