Table of Contents

Section I: RELIGION AND PACIFISM, PEACE AND VIOLENCE
1. The Denomination
2. Basic Categories: Troeltsch and Weber
3. The Break with Nature
4. Catholic Compromise and Sectarian Rejection
5. Can We Blame Religion or Human Nature?
6. Recapitulations and Mutations

Section II: RELIGION AND POLITICS
7. The Religious and the Political
8. Christianity, Violence and Democracy
9. Protestantism and Democracy
10. Why and How the Two Revolutions Were Forbidden

Section III: SECULARISATION
11. Toward Eliminating the Concept of Secularisation
12. Secularisation and the Future of Christianity
13. What I Really Said about Secularisation
14. Does the Advance of Science Mean Secularisation?
15. Has Secularisation Gone into Reverse?

Section IV: PENTECOSTALISM
16. Anglo and Latin: Rival Civilizations, Alternative Patterns
17. The Methodist Model
18. The Argument Summarized and Extended
19. Pentecostalism

Section V: BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES
20. Historical Background: Dissenters and Abstainers
21. Believing without Belonging
22. The United States in Central European Perspective
23. Another Strange Death

Section VI: THEOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY
24. The Sociological Mode and the Theological Vocabulary
25. The Paradigm and the Double Structure
26. Modes of Change
27. What Is Christian Language?
28. Does the Sociological Viewpoint Bear on the Theistic Vision?
29. Changing Your Holy Ground

Section VII: FAITH, CULTURE AND EDUCATION
30. Order and Rule
31. Parts and Wholes, Objectives and Objectivity
32. The Christian, the Political and the Academic

About the Author

David Martin was born and raised in Calgary, where he lives with his wife and children. His poetry has been awarded the CBC Poetry Prize, shortlisted for the Vallum Award for Poetry and PRISM international's poetry contest, and published in many journals and magazines across Canada. He is an instructor at The Reading Foundation, one of the organizers for Calgary's Single Onion poetry reading series, and the frontman for an indie-pop group, The Fragments.

Reviews

This is a thorough representation of David Martin's body of work as a whole. The book brings the reader back time and time again to Martin's main interests: secularization, politics and religion, and religious language alongside sociological methods, to name the most important. -- Tom Riser -- Nova Religio