Martin, David,  1929- <br/><br/>
The future of Christianity :  reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization / 
 reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization. 
David Martin. 
 - Farnham, Surrey, England ;  Burlington, VT :  Ashgate,  c2011. 
 - ix, 230 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>pt.1 Secularization and the future of Christianity -- Christianity and the world, the religious and the secular -- Secularization and the future of Catholicism and Protestantism -- Master narratives and the future of Christianity -- Pentecostalism: transnational voluntarism in the global religious economy -- Has secularization gone into reverse? -- Religious responses to modes of secularism -- Science and secularization. pt.2 Case studies of secularization -- An Eastern European pattern of secularization? -- East Germany: the world's most secular society. pt.3 Religion and politics; democracy and violence -- The religious and the political -- Christianity, violence and democracy -- Protestantism and democracy --  Multiple ironies and necessary paradoxes: a review of religion, fanaticism and violence. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781409406693 (pbk.) :  ￡16.99 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Secularism.<br/>Christianity and politics.<br/>Christianity<br/>Church and the world.<br/>Secularization (Theology).<br/>Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Christianity--Forecasting.