... Marsh Christopher Roman Catholic church Vatican White Lotus sect Ye Xiaomen gurus oracles ritual specialists shamanism witches secularization New Paradigm Peter Berger David Martin R. Stephen Warner Rodney Stark Grace Davie János Kornai shortage economy supply-side theory IN CHINA...

...This chapter examines two bodies of work that both challenge the secularisation paradigm of the decline in religion in the modern world with its focus on indices of formal involvement in institutional religion such as church attendance: Grace Davie's Religion in Britain since 1945...

... sociologists of religion (Steve Bruce, David Voas, Grace Davie, and Linda Woodhead) and two theologians (Robin Gill and David Goodhew). Although these six individuals by no means constitute an exhaustive list of active researchers, they neatly exemplify the spread of opinions and interpretations when it comes...