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By Gert Pickel, Kornelia Sammet

Following the political and fiscal transformation methods in japanese Europe the spiritual landscapes have additionally replaced. whereas a few international locations reveal a revitalization of faith, others are continually secularizing.

The publication explores this distinction, together with diversified, empirical established stories at the subject in quite a lot of japanese eu countries.

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Wiesbaden Beichelt, Timm (2004): Die Europäische Union nach der Osterweiterung. Wiesbaden. Berend, Ivan (1997): Detour From Periphery to Periphery – A History of East-Central Europe, Berkeley. Berger, Peter (1999): DeSecularisation of the World. Resurgent Religion and World Politics. Washington. Beyer, Peter (2004): Religion and Globalization. London. Beyer, Peter (2006): Religions in Global Society. London. ) (2007): Religion, Globalization and Culture. Leiden. Beyme, Klaus von (1994): Systemwechsel in Osteuropa.

And theories of globalization view the worldwide growth of religion as a defensive counter-move against global forces (Berger 1999; Beyer 1994, 2006; Beyer/Beaman 2007; Joas/Wiegandt 2007; Juergensmeyer 2005). Even though the relation of the multiple modernities perspective to the dominant approaches in the sociology of religion still needs to be elaborated, it is clear that it starts out from multiple constellations between religious, secular and secular-religious dimensions in the context of multiple modernisation processes and modernities rather than assuming a one-sided evolutionary relationship between modernisation and secularisation.

2007): Religion, Globalization and Culture. Leiden. Beyme, Klaus von (1994): Systemwechsel in Osteuropa. Frankfurt/M. Bibo, Istvan (1992): Die Misere der osteuropäischen Kleinstaaterei, Frankfurt/M. ) (2002): Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences. Cross-Disciplinary Approaches. London. ) (2009): International Migration and the Governance of Religious Diversity. Montreal. Brubaker, Rogers (1996): Nationalism Reframed. Nationhood and the National Question in The New Europe. New York.

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