The city, the church, and the 1960s: On secularization theory and the Swedish translation of Harvey Cox’s The Secular City

Anton Jansson

The city, the church, and the 1960s: On secularization theory and the Swedish translation of Harvey Cox’s The Secular City

Anton Jansson

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In 1994, sociologist of religion José Casanova wrote in the introduction to his influential book Public Religions in the Modern World that a paradigm shift had occurred in his field. His colleagues had abandoned an earlier paradigm “with the same uncritical haste with which they previously embraced it.” 1 What he had in mind was the theory of secularisation: that is, the notion that with modernisation, religion would disappear from the public sphere, if not altogether. The theory was now, he claimed, something of a myth in the eyes of many of his colleagues, rather than the accepted knowledge it used to be.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia
Subtitle of host publication	Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations
Editors	Johan Östling, Niklas Olsen, David Larsson Heidenblad
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	173-190
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003019275
ISBN (Print)	9780367894559
Publication status	Published - 2020

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History of Religions
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Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations
Östling, J. (Editor), Olsen, N. (Editor) & Larsson Heidenblad, D. (Editor), 2020 Jun 8, London: Routledge. 280 p. (Knowledge Societies in History)
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Jansson, A., 2020 May 21, LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge : Lund University.
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LUCK: Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge
Östling, J. (PI), Nilsson Hammar, A. (PI), Larsson Heidenblad, D. (PI), Hammar, I. (Researcher), Weber, K. (Researcher), Lundberg, B. (Researcher), Haikola, K. (Research student), Kallträsk, E. (Research student), Östh Gustafsson, H. (Researcher), Smedberg, C.-F. (Researcher), Hellman, L. (Researcher), Brännstedt, L. (Researcher), Jensen, M. (Researcher), Nordin, J. (Researcher), Thorup Thomsen, J. (Researcher), Vesterlund, E. (Researcher), Stjernholm, E. (Researcher), Jedeberg, K. (Researcher), Tranvik, A. (Researcher), Hamnell, B. (Researcher), Hennessey, J. (Researcher), Snickars, P. (Researcher) & Öhman, A. (Researcher)
2014/08/25 → …
Project: Network
Humanities in motion: Circulation of knowledge in postwar Sweden and West Germany
Östling, J. (PI), Jansson, A. (Researcher) & Svensson, R. (Researcher)
2019/03/01 → 2021/02/28
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Jansson, A. (2020). The city, the church, and the 1960s: On secularization theory and the Swedish translation of Harvey Cox’s The Secular City. In J. Östling, N. Olsen, & D. Larsson Heidenblad (Eds.), Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations (pp. 173-190). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003019275/chapters/10.4324/9781003019275-13

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Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations. ed. / Johan Östling; Niklas Olsen; David Larsson Heidenblad. London: Routledge, 2020. p. 173-190.

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The city, the church, and the 1960s: On secularization theory and the Swedish translation of Harvey Cox’s The Secular City

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