TY - JOUR AB - The debate regarding the applicability of the secularization thesis needs to make a sharp distinction between the context in which it was created and the grounds for its validity. The aim of this essay is to find empirically and theoretically wellfounded arguments against the secularization theory and to examine whether they are justified or not. But before announcing one’s intention of criticizing the secularization theory, one needs to know what it actually says. Frequently an abridged, unilateral concept of the theory is used enabling one to dissociate oneself from it critically. Therefore, this essay starts with a brief presentation of the main presumptions of the secularization theory, goes on to list the major points of criticism before ending with a discussion of their justification. AU - Pollack, Detlef AU - Pollack, D. DA - 2011 DO - 10.13109/gege.2011.37.4.482 KW - Exzellenzcluster Religion und Politik KW - Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics LA - ger N1 - Manuskriptfassung der Druckausgabe: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 37 (2011) 4, 482-522 N1 - Die Veröffentlichung erfolgt mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Verlages Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. PY - 2011 TI - Historische Analyse statt Ideologiekritik: Eine historisch-kritische Diskussion der Gültigkeit der Säkularisierungstheorie UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-91209511316 Y2 - 2024-12-26T19:58:44 ER -