Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction

Linda Woodhead, Paul Heelas and Grace Davie

I SECULARIZATION THEORY RE-EXAMINED

1 Beyond European and American Exceptionalisms: towards a Global Perspective

José Casanova

2 On Secularization and its Prediction: a Self-examination

David Martin

3 The Evolutionary Principle in the Study of Religion and Society

Olivier Tschannen

II PREDICTING CHRISTIANITY

4 The Demise of Christianity in Britain

Steve Bruce

5 Prediction and Prophecy in the Future of Religion

Bryan Wilson

6 Social Networks and Religious Identity: An Historical Example from Wales

Paul Chambers

7 Social Networks and Personal Beliefs: An Example from Modern Britain

Rob Hirst

8 A Place at High Table? Assessing the Future of Charismatic Christianity

Martyn Percy

9 The Decline of the Church in England as a Local Membership Organization: Predicting the Nature of Civil Society in 2050

Helen Cameron

10 After Secularism: British Government and the Inner Cities

Jenny Taylor

III PREDICTING ALTERNATIVES

11 The Self as the Basis of Religious Faith: Spirituality of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Christians

Andrew KT. Yip

12 The Quakers: towards an Alternate Ordering

Gay Pilgrim

13 Understanding the Spirituality of People who Do Not Go to Church

Kate Hunt

14 'Witchcraft will not soon Vanish from this Earth': Wicca in the 21st Century

Jo Pearson

15 Alexis de Tocqueville, Pantheism and the Religion of Democracy

S.J.D. Green

16 Religion on - Religion in Cyberspace

Anastasia Karaflogka

17 The Paranormal in Swedish Religiosity

Ulf Sjödin

18 Are the Stars Coming out? Secularization and the Future of Astrology in the West

Wayne Spencer

19 An Ageing New Age?

Paul Heelas and Benjamin Seel

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