books.google.co.uk - August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the emergence of industrial society. Their belief that religion was dying became conventional wisdom in the social sciences...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Sacred_and_secular.html?id=dto-P2YfWJIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSacred and secular
