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"In the decades following the Second World War, most social scientists expected convergence among the Western industrial democracies. Modernization was expected to bring prosperity and opportunity, initiating a “culture shift” to posttraditional values and lifestyles.
However, in recent years observers have remarked on a growing divide between Europeans and Americans. This divergence may be nowhere greater than in the religious sphere. While faith is loudly proclaimed and a bustling diversity of religious organizations jostles for attention in all arenas of public life in the United States, the European Union (EU) is described as thoroughly secularized, comprised of societies in which religion occupies an evershrinking private role."
ISBN
9780511619502
Publication Date
1-2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City
New York, NY
Disciplines
Comparative Methodologies and Theories | European Languages and Societies | International Relations | Other American Studies | Other Political Science | Other Religion | Political Theory
Recommended Citation
Pfaff, Steven. 2008. “The Religious Divide: Why Religion seems to be Thriving in the United States and Waning in Europe”, in J. Kopstein and S. Steinmo, Eds., Growing Apart? America and Europe in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Cambridge University Press
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In Jeffrey Kopstein and Sven Steinmo (Eds.), Growing Apart? America and Europe in the Twenty-First Century.