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001 2012043415
003 DLC
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010 $a 2012043415
020 $a9781599473796 (hardbound : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aBT83.7$b.E24 2013
082 00 $a270.8$223
100 1 $aEberstadt, Mary.
245 10 $aHow the West really lost God :$ba new theory of secularization /$cMary Eberstadt.
264 1 $aWest Conshohocken, Pennsylvania :$bTempleton Press,$c[2013]
264 4 $c©2013
300 $ax, 257 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aDoes secularization even exist? -- What is the conventional story line about how the West lost God? What are the problems with it? -- Circumstantial evidence for a "family factor", part one: the empirical links among marriage, childbearing, and religiosity -- Circumstantial evidence for the "family factor", part two: snapshots of the demographic record, or, How fundamental changes in family formation have accompanied the decline of Christianity in the West -- Circumstantial evidence for the "family factor", part three: because the "family factor" explains problems that existing theories of secularization do not explain, including what is known as "American exceptionalism" -- Assisted religious suicide: how some churches participated in their own downfall by ignoring the family factor -- Putting all the pieces together: toward an alternative anthropology of Christian belief -- The future of faith and family: the case for pessimism -- The future of faith and family: the case for optimism -- Conclusion: why does any of this matter?
650 0 $aSecularization (Theology)
650 0 $aSecularism.