Religion

Academic analysis into religion has tended towards bile, encouraged by the sociologist’s use of the secularisation thesis. The general attack on religion is summed up nicely by Stark and Bainbridge (1985): ”At least since the Enlightenment, most Western intellectuals have anticipated the death of religion...The most illustrious figures in sociology, anthropology, and psychology have unanimously expressed confidence that their children, or surely their grandchildren, would live to see the ...