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Article: Civil society and religion: retrospective reflections on Catholicism and prospective reflections on Islam.
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- Social Research
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- December 22, 2001
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ONE of the most surprising and unexpected aspects of the global resurgence of civil society has been the role that religion has played in this emergence. It was surprising and unexpected at least for most social scientists and for all those who took for granted the main premises of the theory of secularization: that religion in the modern world is likely to decline and become increasingly privatized, marginal, and politically irrelevant (Casanova, 1994b). Insofar as this global resurgence is intrinsically linked with the "third wave of democratization," one can easily follow its flows from Southern Europe (Spain) to South America (Brazil), to Eastern Europe (Poland), to ...
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