RARE OUT OF PRINT monograph on secularization written from a sociological perspective and analyzed on three levels: societal secularization which is a typical consequence of the processes of modernity, individual secularization that is manifested in the decline of church commitment, and organizational secularization, which covers the incidence of the adaptation of religious bodies to secularized society. The author - Karel Dobbelaere (b.1933), is an emeritus professor of both the University of Antwerp (UFSIA) and the Catholic University of Leuven, an elected member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts, the Academia Europaea, and a former President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. He was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College (Oxford, GBR), the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (Nagoya, Japan), and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris, France). 220x150mm. 214 pages. Softcover. Cover corners and spine edges slightly rubbed. Previous owner`s name written in pen on title page. Pen underlining near text on pages 50, 165, 177, 198-199, 201-203 and 206. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare out of print study on secularization by one of the most influential modern sociologists of religion is otherwise in very good condition.