Chapter 4: The Secular Discourse

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Chapter 1: The Pluralist Phenomenon 1
5. Chapter 2: Pluralism and Individual Faith 17
6. Chapter 3: Pluralism and Religious Institutions 34
7. Chapter 4: The Secular Discourse 51
8. Chapter 5: Religion and Multiple Modernities 68
9. Chapter 6: The Political Management of Pluralism 79
10. Response by Nancy T. Ammerman: Modern Altars in Everyday Life 94
11. Response by Detlef Pollack: Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociology of Religion? 111
12. Response by Fenggang Yang: Agency-Driven Secularization and Chinese Experiments in Multiple Modernities 123
13. Index 141