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09.03.2020 | Society’s Books of Note
Society’s Books of Note
March/April 2020
Erschienen in: Society | Ausgabe 2/2020
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David Martin, Christianity and “the World”: Secularization Narratives through the Lens of English Poetry 800 AD to the Present. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020. $27.00. 224 pp.…David Martin was one of the world’s leading commentators on secularization theory. He was also a committed and lifelong reader of English poetry. The present book develops Martin’s argument against simplistic secularization narratives with reference to the history of poetry, a topic with which few social theorists have been concerned. Martin shows the enduring but ever-changing centrality of Christian thought and practice, in its many different forms, to English poetry. The result is a study at once informed by an authoritative sociological perspective on secularization and richly colored by the singular intensity of Martin’s own reading life.