released 3/22/2019
Sociologist David Martin died on March 8th. Martin was best known for his pioneering critique of secularization as a uniform theory of social process and his pioneering work on Pentecostalism in Latin America. In this 2007 interview with Ken Myers, Martin talks about how the cultural shifts of the 1960s were the fruition of previous changes in the 1890s and 1930s.
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