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Linda Woodhead on the New Sociology of Religion

Social Science Bites

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Is There a Growth in Religion in Britain?

Sociology of religion was tracking a progress towards greater secularization and move away from religion. What sort of evidence do you have that we are in an age when we're moving to a growth in religion? Well, i wouldn't want to say, let's replace the old paradime of decline with a new paradime of growth. I think it is about replacing it with an understanding of the social worlds as just much, much more complex. So there's not one grand theory that's going to explain the world any more.

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