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Modernizare şi religie în societatea contemporană
Modernization and Religion in Contemporary Society

Author(s): Veronica ION
Subject(s): Politics and religion, History of Communism, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: modernization; secularization; industrialization; religious revival; communism;

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on analyzing the relation between religion and the process of modernization. It characterizes modernization as a potential source of religious innovation, reviews the religious consequences of modernization and presents a model of analysis and several religious forms typical of this process. The last part of the article includes a short description of the secularization process, by focusing on the theoretical references of it and the situation of religious faith and institutions during the communist regime.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 75-78
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian