Table of Contents

Choice: Origins and Consequences
Rational Choice Theory
Pluralism and Religion: Britain, USA and Australia
Pluralism and Religion: Europe
Rational Choice: The Basic Errors
Conservative Religion
Liberal Religion

About the Author

Steve Bruce is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen

Reviews

`The notes ot the text and the bibliography will be useful to post-graduate researchers.'
Douglas J. Davies, Religion Vol 31, No 1,January 2001
`open and direct style of analysis without untoward reductionism gives this book an intellectual appeal'
Douglas J. Davies, Religion Vol 31, No 1,January 2001
`his account of relativism as a democratic theory of knowledge is as informative as it is expressly succint ... some theologians will also find this a useful book when considering the relationship between doctrine and changing social worlds'
Douglas J. Davies, Religion Vol 31, No 1, January 2001
`this volume will be of use for courses in the sociology of religion. It advances and does not simply rehearse arguments over secularisation and over what he calls the two master trends of modernisation, viz., cultural diversity and individual autonomy.'
Douglas J. Davies, Religion Vol 31, No 1, January 2001
`I much enjoyed this book as both a critical and a creative essay in the sociology of religion'
Douglas J. Davies, Religion Vol 31, No 1, January 2001
`Bruce expertly hammers in the nails with respect to secularization in Western Europe.'
David Martin, TLS
`Bruce is notorious for inserting his skewer at the point of maximum leverage'
David Martin, TLS
`The force of Bruce's arguments is impressive.'
James A Beckford, Journal of Contemporary Religion,Vol 15.