This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society. Bryan S. Turner considers the problems of multicultural, ...

Previous explanations have ranged from the idea that modern society is built on moral values to the notion that modernization results in moral decay. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume use ...

as slave trade and plantation slavery were of prime importance in the making of the modern world. But what was a gain for the world, especially in the West, was a loss for Africa. Here I am not ...

In 1536 Wales had about 278,000 inhabitants. The number rose to around 360,000 in 1620 and to perhaps 500,000 by 1750. The chief cause of this rise was the intensification of rural settlement, the ...