Roger Finke Essays
The Death of the Secularization: A Rhetorical Analysis of Stark's Thesis College
Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion
In his paper “Secularization, R.I.P.,” Rodney Stark argues that the secularization thesis has been wholly disproven. This thesis, the notion that religious beliefs would gradually disappear as modernization progressed, is based on several...