Secularization Revisited - Teaching of Religion and the State of Denmark: 1721-2

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Instead of abandoning the subject of secularization, Niels Reeh's Secularization Revisited demonstrates how the collapse of formerly dominant secularization theories indicates fundamental conceptual challenges within sociology.

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Since 2001, history has proven the classic and once dominant theories of secularization wrong. Instead of abandoning the subject of secularization, Niels Reeh's Secularization Revisited demonstrates how the collapse of formerly dominant secularization theories indicates fundamental conceptual challenges within sociology. Through a historical sociological case study of the political decision-making concerning the teaching of religion in Denmark from 1721 to 2006, Reeh explains why sociology of religion and sociology more generally should pay more attention to interstate relations, state-form and state-agency. The Danish state's interest in its inhabitants' religion over the last three centuries responded not only to religious motives but to concerns about foreign relations and the survival of the state.

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Since 2001, history has proven the classic and once dominant theories of secularization wrong. Instead of abandoning the subject of secularization, Secularization Revisited demonstrates how the collapse of formerly dominant secularization theories indicates fundamental conceptual challenges within sociology. This theoretical and empirical analysis argues that sociology of religion as well as sociology in general should pay more attention to the vital external and internal interests of the state, state-form and state-agency. In the first part of the book, Niels Reeh argues that inter-religious dynamics and state agency in particular have been neglected by the sociology of religion. Reeh then proposes a new analytical framework that can incorporate these two elements into the analysis. In the second part of the book, Reeh applies the analytical framework and presents the first long-term historical sociological case study of the teaching of religion in a European state. His study of the political decision-making concerning the teaching of religion in Denmark from 1721 to 2006 reveals that the Danish state's interest in the religion of its inhabitants to have been dependent on the external relations of the state and the state-form. On this basis, Reeh shows that the changing state interest in the religion of its inhabitants is a crucial factor both behind the decline of the social significance of religion from 1720 to the 1990s, and behind its increase in the years following 2001. Consequently, Reeh argues that sociology should abandon unidirectional theories of secularization and instead shift to studies of historical religious change. The book is intended for students and scholars of religion, sociology, educational history and history in general (as well as the general public).

Author Biography

Dr. Neils Reeh received his Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Copenhagen. He has received several grants from the Danish Research Council and has been a one year visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton New Jersey and is currently Associate Research-Professor at the University of Copenhagen.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Part I: Theory.- A Conceptual Analysis of the Roots of the Dominant Secularization Theories.- What is a Religion? Towards a Relational Approach to Religion.- Further Implications of the Relational Approach to the Study of Religion.- Part II: Case-Study of the Religious State Politics in the Danish Schools from 1700 - 2006.- The period from 1721 to 1789.- The period from 1789 to 1814.- The period from 1814 to 1849.- The period from 1848 to 1865.- The period from 1864 to 1901.- The period from 1901 to 1949.- The period from 1949 to 1975.- From 1975 to the end of the Cold War.- From 1990 to 2006.- Summary of the State Religious Politics from 1721 to 2005.- Part III: Conclusion.- Conclusion.

Review

"This work analyzes the agency of the state in a long-term historical perspective and presents religious education being constructed in the interest of the state. … Reeh's work is important, innovative and interesting, especially as it is done on the subject of religious education in a long-term historical perspective. … Reeh's work is important reading for students in religious studies as well as in education, not least for students preparing to become teachers in religious education." (Kerstin von Brömssen, Nordic Journal of Religion and Society, Vol. 30 (1), 2017)

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"This work analyzes the agency of the state in a long-term historical perspective and presents religious education being constructed in the interest of the state. ... Reeh's work is important, innovative and interesting, especially as it is done on the subject of religious education in a long-term historical perspective. ... Reeh's work is important reading for students in religious studies as well as in education, not least for students preparing to become teachers in religious education." (Kerstin von Brmssen, Nordic Journal of Religion and Society, Vol. 30 (1), 2017)

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Provides a renewed attempt to learn from the failure of the classic and once dominant secularization theories Introduces inter-state relations, state agency and inter-religious relations into the debate about secularization and historical religious change Offers the first historical sociological case study of the teaching of religion of a European state from 1700 until today

Details ISBN3319396064 Author Niels Reeh Year 2016 ISBN-10 3319396064 ISBN-13 9783319396064 Format Hardcover Short Title SECULARIZATION REVISITED - TEA Language English Media Book Pages 206 Imprint Springer International Publishing AG Subtitle 1721-2006 Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Edition 1st Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 206 p. 1 illus. Series Number 5 Publication Date 2016-08-12 UK Release Date 2016-08-12 Illustrator Chris Dickason Edited by Michel Meybeck Birth 1968 Affiliation Yunnan Univ, China Position Associate Director Qualifications Ph.D. Publisher Springer International Publishing AG Edition Description 1st ed. 2016 Series Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies Alternative 9783319819211 DEWEY 201.6 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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