The Secularisation Thesis: How the Lack of Actual Science in Social Science Caused a Ultimately Fruitless Debate

Secularisation is the theory that across time, in the West, religion will become less important and will be replaced by reason and science. But there’s something about it which seems to induce an aspect of religion — fervent belief — in the sociologists who explore it. In 1999, American sociologist Rodney Stark (1934–2022) published a […]