This article first appeared on the London School of Economics site. The religiosity of the United States has impressed observers since the early 19th century, and American levels of religious ...

History occasionally produces events that overturn the intellectual frameworks used to interpret the modern world. The French Revolution did this in 1789 by demonstrating the political power of mass ...

Back in the 1960s, there was almost universal acceptance among social scientists of the “secularization thesis,” the belief that as societies became more modern—more economically developed, ...

This opinion piece was written by Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson, co-authors of the forthcoming book “The Politics of Apocalypse.” What academics loftily call “the secularization thesis” is by ...

The idea of secularization is fundamental to contemporary debates over the sociology of religion. As sociologist Steve Bruce puts the issue succinctly, “The basic proposition is that modernization ...