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Organized religion—and especially Christianity—is in decline. Secularization is advancing apace. Most sociologists of religion agree on this. What they disagree about, however, is why.

Special attention is paid to the role of successive secularization waves in shaping the geographical patterns of both transitions. The study also shows that the maps of the two aspects of the SDT, i.e ...