Here’s a paragraph I just started to write that will probably not make it into the final version of this paper. It felt good to write it though.
In the past twenty years, since the decline of secularization theory, a self-proclaimed “new paradigm” has had a stranglehold on debates within the sociology of religion. Kicking promising efforts to rekindle the vision of classical sociological thought in the subdiscipline into the dustbin (e.g., Turner, Religion and Social Theory), these scholars dismissed any intellectual concern beyond a narrowly defined understanding of “scientific explanation” and welcomed economic colonization with open arms.
