Religion

Koenig, Matthias

doi:10.1515/9783110627275-023

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Koenig, Matthias
Fellow Group Governance of Cultural Diversity, MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Max Planck Society;

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Koenig, M. (2021). Religion. In B. Hollstein, R. Greshoff, U. Schimank, & A. Weiß (Eds.), Soziologie: Sociology in the German-Speaking World: Special Issue Soziologische Revue 2020 (pp. 331-343). Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. doi:10.1515/9783110627275-023.

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hisessaydiscussesrecenttrendsintheGerman-languagesociologyofre-ligion.IttraceshowstrongtheoreticalrootsandintensiveempiricalscrutinyofEast-WestdifferencesafterGermanreunificationhaveproduceddistinctivecontributionstotheinternationaldebateaboutsecularizationtheoryanditslong-heldassumptionsabout religious decline, privatization, and differentiation. Theirresult has been adeliberate movetowards middle-rangetheories that analyze contextuallysituatedprocesses of religious transformation acrossawiderangeofmodern societies. Theessayalso reviews novel trends in empiricalresearchemerging from dialogue andcompetition with neighboring disciplinary fields (e.g., migration studies) and dis-cusses novel attempts to theorize culturalprocesses of sacralization and discursiveformations of religion that,jointly, have pushed the field even more beyond the sec-ularization debate. In conclusion, the essaysuggests some directions in which thesociologyofreligion might be moving–in Germany and elsewhere.Keywords: