1987
DOI: 10.2307/3710942
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Privatization in American Religion and Society

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“…Does not apply and those with no religion are coded as having many doubts. Support for proselytization contrasts those who say it is “okay for religious people to try to convert other people to their faith” with those who believe “everyone [should] leave everyone else alone.” Last, opposition to religious subjectivism (Hart ) is based on disagreement with the following statement: “Some people think that it is okay to pick and choose their religious beliefs without having to accept the teachings of their religious faith as a whole. Do you agree or disagree that this is okay?”…”
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“…Does not apply and those with no religion are coded as having many doubts. Support for proselytization contrasts those who say it is “okay for religious people to try to convert other people to their faith” with those who believe “everyone [should] leave everyone else alone.” Last, opposition to religious subjectivism (Hart ) is based on disagreement with the following statement: “Some people think that it is okay to pick and choose their religious beliefs without having to accept the teachings of their religious faith as a whole. Do you agree or disagree that this is okay?”…”
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“…The religious individualization thesis maintains that traditional and institutionalized forms of religiosity have increasingly been replaced by more subjective and individually oriented forms (Luckmann 1963). With increasing functional differentiation and the emancipation of secular spheres, religion, it is argued, has retreated to the private realm and changed from a broad external set of rules governing social life into a more private set of moral principles and guidelines for those who believe (Hart 1987;Casanova 1994). While individualization is sometimes proposed as an alternative to the secularization thesis, where the level of religiosity remains but is channeled into more individualist social forms (Luckmann 1963;Davie 1994), other scholars argue that individualization is only one sub-component of the overall secularization process (Pollack and Pickel 2007).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Socio-cultural changes can also lead to privatization of religion. Privatization is a term that can be understood as: religion without the churches; churches as voluntary organizations; individual theological responsibility; religious subjectivism; separation of religion from public concerns; the religious marketplace [ 3 ]. As such, religion does not disappear, as it does in the secularization paradigm, but it becomes a matter of preference and choice, while losing overall normative power [ 4 , 5 ].…”
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confidence: 99%