TY - JOUR T1 - Religion in the Urban Community: An Exploratory Study AU - Sijuwade, Philip O. AU - Santoya, John JO - The Social Sciences VL - 8 IS - 6 SP - 505 EP - 510 PY - 2013 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2013.505.510 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2013.505.510 KW - Secularization KW -urbanization KW -religion KW -institutions KW -ecosystem KW -theories AB - Many theologians have called for a re-examination of traditional religious practices and beliefs as they exist today in urban societies. Some argue that churches have not changed as quickly or as deeply as is necessary to confront key modern issues. Religious institutions often appear to be by passed by other social institutions and important individual and societal concerns do not appear in church agenda. The process by which religious institutions are separated from other social arrangements and lose influence throughout many areas of life is known as secularization. Historically, secularization and urbanization have been linked together and the goal of this study is to show how each process has influenced the other. ER -