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Secularization or “diffused religion”?

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Religiosität in der säkularisierten Welt

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After the wave of secularization and the more recent development defined as “religious revival”, social scientists studying the religious phenomenon are becoming far more cautious about the use of certain data, which even today give importance to either the secularization or the revival hypothesis (Cipriani 1997; Cipriani 2000). It has already become apparent that in both cases this process is probably due to a tendency towards the “sociological construction of inconsistency” by means of purely theoretical reasoning, or of a marked use of figures and results which are put together in scientifically unacceptable ways.

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Cipriani, R. (2006). Secularization or “diffused religion”?. In: Franzmann, M., Gärtner, C., Köck, N. (eds) Religiosität in der säkularisierten Welt. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90213-5_6

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