ABSTRACT
This book documents part of an intellectual journey roughly over the two years 2002-4, with regard to Christianity and secularization, which had begun about four decades earlier with a critique of the concept of secularization. It came to interim fruition with ‘Notes Towards a General Theory of Secularization’, published in The European Journal of Sociology in December 1969, which comprised the first chapter of A General Theory of Secularization published by Blackwell in 1978. The chapters here are ‘Notes Towards’ a revised ‘General Theory’; a summary of the four decades work appeared in the article ‘Secularization and the Future of Christianity’, which was published in The Journal of Contemporary Religion, 20 (2), May 2005.
