So happy to finally have the physical copy in my hands! 🥳 Our special volume of the Zeitschrift für Soziologie @_ZfSoziologie (ZfS) aims to bring together differentiation theory with historical sociology and the sociology of religion. The contributions … 1/

I very much hope that this volume may help to spark a discussion about the fruitfulness of differentiation theory in various historical contexts and beyond the "West". /fin

… they draw on a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives in order to examine the most diverse (early) forms of secularity and the demarcations between religion and its manifold others. 3/

… come from the fields of sociology and anthropology, religious studies and history and cover a wide range of case studies, from antiquity to the present and from Asia to Africa and European societies. At the same time, … 2/