Review of Daphne Halikiopoulou, Patterns of Secularization By Carole Cusack

https://www.academia.edu/145828743/Review_of_Daphne_Halikiopoulou_Patterns_of_Secularization?email_work_card=title This monograph is a valuable contribution to the emerging literature on secularization in Western society that attempts to adduce empirical evidence to build a convincing picture of religious change, rather than simply theorizing the inevitable ‘end of religion’ or trenchantly opposing it with supply-side arguments about the revival of religion due to free market conditions. Daphne Halikiopoulou employs the cultural defense paradigm in her examination of two European nations in which the process of secularization has taken decidedly different lineaments. ...