In the early twenty-first century it had become a cliche that there was a "God Gap" between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe. The apparent religious differences between the United States and western Europe continue to be a focus of intense and sometimes bitter debate between three of the main schools in the sociology of religion. According to the influential "Secularization Thesis," secularization has been an integral part of the processes of modernization in the Western world since around 1800. For proponents of this thesis, the United States appears as an anomaly and...
In the early twenty-first century it had become a cliche that there was a "God Gap" between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe. ...
