“Secular Europe” is so often a foil for “religious America” that the remnants of Christianity in twenty-first-century Europe rarely garner much notice. Evidence for the apparent secularization of Europe is easy to find: rates of church attendance steadily (and in some periods, as in the 1960s, rapidly) declined over the course of the twentieth century, and any supernatural beliefs that remain common bear little resemblance to traditional Christian teaching. The image of secular Europe endures even as the secularization theory bred there, which assumed that religious decline in Europe would serve as a model for the rest of the world, has been the subject of numerous challenges by both historians

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基督教英格兰的制度来世

“世俗欧洲”常常是“宗教美国”的衬托，以至于 21 世纪欧洲的基督教残余很​​少引起人们的注意。欧洲明显世俗化的证据很容易找到：在 20 世纪的过程中，教堂出席率稳步下降（在某些时期，如 1960 年代，迅速下降），任何仍然普遍的超自然信仰与传统的基督教教义。即使世俗化理论在那里孕育，世俗化欧洲的形象仍然存在，该理论假设欧洲的宗教衰落将成为世界其他地区的典范，这一直是两位历史学家面临的众多挑战的主题