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July 4, 2019

Global Religious and Secular Dynamics

In his "last word on secularization" José Casanova offers a global historical perspective that integrates European theories of modern secularization and competing theories of global religious revival as interrelated dynamics. The essay was originally published in the inaugural edition of Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Politics.

related | Essay Overview on the Berkley Forum

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June 30, 2019

Casanova's Landmark Book Turns 25

José Casanova's landmark book Public Religions in the Modern World celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2019. The book reevaluates the theory of secularization in light of the global resurgence of religion during the four decades prior to 1994, focusing on the phenomenon of “deprivatization,” or religious re-engagement in the public sphere.

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