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245			_aThe sacred in a secular age: Toward revision in the scientific study of religion
260			_aBerkeley _bUniversity of California Press _c1985
300			_avii, 379 p. _bIncludes bibliographical reference and index
520			_aSacred in a Secular Age, edited by Phillip E. Hammond, brings together leading scholars to reassess one of the most enduring assumptions in the sociology of religion: the secularization thesis. Long taken as conventional wisdom, the thesis posits an inexorable decline of the sacred as societies modernize. Yet the persistence—and even resurgence—of religion in new movements, conservative traditions, and political struggles around the world challenges the adequacy of this model.
700			_aHammond, Phillip E. _eEditor _9860891
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