Secularization as a European Fate? – Results from the Church and Religion in an Enlarged Europe Project 2006

Pickel, Gert

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“…It is important not to lose sight on the large differences within and between European countries (cf. There are countries where the belief in astrology or the impact of Zen meditations and yoga are broadly spread (Russia, Bulgaria) and countries where few attach belief to these interests (Poland) Halman et al 2005 ;Pickel 2009 ;Pollack and Pickel 2009 ;Huber and Krech 2009 ). There are countries where large majorities of the inhabitants consider themselves as "religious" (Poland, Romania, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Ireland), and there are countries where this applies only to a minority (the Czech Republic, East Germany).…”

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Religion and Civil Society in Europe

Hart¹,

Dekker²,

Halman³

2013

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Section: The Varieties Of European Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Religion and Civil Society in Europe

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Dekker²,

Halman³

2013

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“…Lots of sociologists expected religions to decrease in membership to the point, perhaps, of vanishing from human society. (Gabriel / Pollack 2012;Pickel 2009a) Secularization, furthermore, is a process that takes place on different levels. At the institutional level it means a decline of formal membership or religious adherence (even though it is hard to define what "membership" and "adherence" means, since different religious traditions have different requirements for belonging.)…”

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Mission as Oikumenical Doxology – Secularized Europe and the Quest for a New Paradigm of Mission. Empirical Data and Missiological Reflections

Wrogemann¹

2014

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For more than a century now, Christianity's influence within many European countries has been in decline. Since especially the 1960s, there has been a corresponding and massive loss of church members. Despite the development of new forms of missionary engagement, the trend has not stopped, and it is very likely to continue for some time. What reasons lie behind it? How should the church address the challenges presented by this situation? These questions cannot, of course, be dealt with in detail in a single article. After the survey of statistical data and the range of its sociological interpretations, I will focus, third, on the missionary efforts conducted by the churches in Great Britain and Germany. Finally, I propose a specific missiology termed "oikumenical doxology" which I consider applicable to the situation in Germany, in particular, and European countries, in general.

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“…Zum einen sind die Gedanken der multiple secularities (Burchard und WohlrabSahr 2013;Burchard et al 2015; siehe auch Asad 2013) zu nennen, welche in Anlehnung und Weiterführung der Gedanken Eisenstadts zu "multiple modernities" (2000) die regional und zeitlich voneinander unabhängige Entwicklung von Säku-5 Siehe hierzu den Beitrag von Pollack in diesem Heft zu Religionsbegriffen (Pollack 2017 (Pickel 2009(Pickel , 2010(Pickel , S. 241-243, 2011b. Interessant ist, dass es so etwas wie einen Scheitelpunkt geben könnte, an dem sich der Abbruch abmildert.…”

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Religiosität in Deutschland und Europa – Religiöse Pluralisierung und Säkularisierung auf soziokulturell variierenden Pfaden

Pickel

2017

Z Religion Ges Polit

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Religiosity in Germany and Europe -Religious pluralization and secularization on socio-cultural and varying pathsAbstract In the last decades, the development of religion in Europe takes three paths: Secularization, religious pluralization and individualization. The article presents an empirical overview of these three developments, embedded in the G. Pickel ( ) Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Deutschland E-Mail: pickel@rz.uni-leipzig.de K 38 G. Pickel current general theories of religious development. The main results are: There is a dominant process of a path-dependent secularization in Germany and Western Europe. Secularization is an integral part of a broader process of religious pluralization, mainly triggered by immigration. The driving force is the ongoing socioeconomic modernization, but also political, social and cultural circumstances. It is possible to identify clear mechanisms, why these processes take place -and why secularization and a rising political relevance of religion in the political discussion is no contradiction. The main question for the future of religion in Europe will be how to manage the greater diversity in society and what the consequences of the reactivation of collective identities with reference to (other) religious groups are.

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Secularization as a European Fate? – Results from the Church and Religion in an Enlarged Europe Project 2006

Cited by 48 publications

References 49 publications

Religion and Civil Society in Europe

Religion and Civil Society in Europe

Mission as Oikumenical Doxology – Secularized Europe and the Quest for a New Paradigm of Mission. Empirical Data and Missiological Reflections

Religiosität in Deutschland und Europa – Religiöse Pluralisierung und Säkularisierung auf soziokulturell variierenden Pfaden

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