TY - BOOK AU - Martin,David TI - The future of Christianity: reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization SN - 9781409406693 (pbk.) : PY - 2011/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Secularism KW - Christianity and politics KW - Christianity KW - Church and the world KW - Secularization (Theology) KW - Violence KW - Religious aspects KW - Forecasting N1 - 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 ER -