Secularisation, Pentecostalism, and violence : receptions, rediscoveries, and rebuttals in the sociology of religion / David Martin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The travels and travails of the concept of secularisation -- Overview of the problem -- Exploring my own reception -- Extensions of the secularisation debate -- Secularisation and other disciplines -- Recapitulation in the sociology of religion in Britain -- Changing patterns and changing receptions in painting and music -- Ancillary debates: violence, Pentecostalism -- Religion and violence -- Reception and Pentecostalism -- Examples -- Religion and the varied sources of violence: disrupting a narrative -- Religion and the variable patterns of cultural change modernisation.