ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Luckmann criticizes contemporary sociology of religion as too focused on issues of church attendance and the presence of institutionally disseminated beliefs among individuals. This, to Luckmann, represents an undue narrowing of the rightful scope of sociology of religion as well as a theoretical impoverishment, and it is in sharp contrast to the traditions of this discipline. It leads to a view of linear secularization and separates the discipline at large from social theory.
