SECULARIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

J. Beckford
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From the beginning of sociology in the mid-19 th century, the dominant concern was with the emergence of industrial society. Early sociologists had a lot to say about the significance of religion to this development and vice versa. They laid down a pattern of concepts and theoretical arguments which have tended to highlight a very limited number of reasons for regarding religion as an interesting topic for sociologists. The pattern is dominated by the theme of religion’s eclipse by industrial society. In various ways, and with a bewildering variety of embellishments, social scientists have overwhelmingly framed religion as a topic of marginal and declining significance. Explanations for the downward trajectory of religion have taken many forms, but the ground-bass refers monotonously to aspects of industrialization and modernization. This leads an air of inevitability to the process which is conventionally called ‘secularization’.
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世俗化及其不满
从19世纪中叶社会学开始,主要关注的是工业社会的出现。早期的社会学家有很多关于宗教对这一发展的重要性的说法,反之亦然。他们奠定了一套概念和理论论证模式,这些概念和理论论证倾向于强调将宗教视为社会学家感兴趣的话题的原因非常有限。这一模式的主要主题是宗教被工业社会所取代。以各种方式,加上令人眼花缭乱的各种修饰,社会科学家压倒性地将宗教定义为一个边缘和重要性下降的话题。对宗教衰落轨迹的解释有多种形式,但最基本的都是工业化和现代化的方面。这导致了一种不可避免的气氛,这一过程通常被称为“世俗化”。
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