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The Secularization of Norwegian Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

John. T. Flint
John. T. Flint
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San Fernando Valley State College
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Conceptions of the nature and process of secularization have ranged in scope of reference from those encompassing all aspects of social change to those limited to alterations in the religious order of human societies. General theories of social change in modern sociology remain schematic. Indeed, until recent years, concern with this once central problem has been peripheral to the main trend in sociological research and theory construction. Howard Becker, whose conception of the process of secularization was intended to encompass all aspects of social change, remained, until his death, one on the very few American sociologists devoted to this once classical problem.

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Secularization
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , April 1964 , pp. 325 - 344
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1964

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19 The present discussion of the Reformation in Norway derives largely from Holmsen, op. cit., pp. 492–99. This dependence ranges from paraphrase translations to general reference. See also, Flint, op. cit., pp. 38–45.

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21 The foundations of Dano-Norwegian absolutism were located in the Danish mercantile strata, not in Norway.

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26 Indeed, by the end of the 18th century, the term laere (teacher) rather than prest (priest or pastor) diffused among the peasantry as a term of role reference for religious functionaries.