期刊名称：Acta Universitatis Sapientiae : Social Analysis
印刷版ISSN：2069-7449
电子版ISSN：2248-0854
出版年度：2015
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：207-210
出版社：Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Scientia Publishing House
摘要：The term ‘secularization’ has dominated the field of the social scientific study of religion for decades, either as an almost ideological assertion of the inevitable decline of religion or as a phrase invoking endless debates on its validity as a theoretical explanation of the dropping societal significance of traditional churches. It is extremely hard to resolve the dispute even on empirical grounds, partly because the diverse concepts of secularization – just like many common or fashionable social scientific terms – lack an exact definition, or at least approximately uniform interpretation or a generally accepted use. The various or even vague concept of religion of researchers, as well as many alternative and in certain ways contradictory theoretical explanatory models of religious change make the overview of this area even more difficult. Thus, the authors of the present book have undertaken a rather difficult task to systematize existing knowledge and conclusions drawn so far within this research area, and also to add their new findings and insights
