Explaining Religion’s Durability or Decline Based on Morphogenetic Generation

How do researchers explain religion’s durability in Costa Rica and intense secularization in Uruguay in spite of parallel historical developments? This article seeks to explain why current theories of secularization and religious stability are inadequate to explain this outcome due to the limits of positivistic assumptions and methodological individualism. Archer’s morphogenetic approach provides a better model because it avoids conflation by...