Secularization, Social Order, and World History: Toward a Global Perspective

Secularization, Social Order and World Historyprovides a new perspective on the nature of secularization. This book demonstrates that the concepts of ＂religion＂ and the ＂secular＂ that are assumed in traditional accounts of secularization are not universal human categories, but specifically modern and Western ideas.

Kevin N. Flatt is Professor of History and Associate Dean of Humanities at Redeemer University in Ontario, Canada, and a Research Fellow at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Religion, Culture, and Societal Futures. His scholarship focuses on secularization in modern societies and the history of Protestantism in Canada. His first book, After Evangelicalism: The Sixties and the United Church of Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013), examined the transformation and decline of the country’s largest Protestant denomination.