Ruiz Andrés, Rafael2024-02-022024-02-022023Rafael Ruiz Andrés (2023) Toward a sociological hermeneutics of narrative secularization: secular stories in the Spanish case of religious transformation (1960–2019), Journal of Contemporary Religion, 38:1, 97-115, DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.21809261353-790310.1080/13537903.2023.2180926https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98536The purpose of this article is to present a dimension of the study of religious transformation that can help us to continue the debate on secularization from an approach of sociological history: narrativity. After the presentation of the conceptual and methodological bases that support this study, I explore a specific case of secularization: Spanish society between 1960 and 2019. The acceleration of the secularization process in the second half of the century was particularly condensed in the gestation of a whole series of narratives, which led to the formation of an ‘epistemic secular regime’. This article will reflect on the particularities of three specific historical moments: the late 1960s, the period immediately after Franco’s death (from 1975 until the end of the 1980s), and the beginning of the twenty-first century. My research concludes by confirming the importance of narrative secularization to understand this process from a socio-historical perspective and proposes the study of the narrative dimension as a line of explanation for the particular acceleration and extension of secularization in other European societies.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/journal article1469-9419https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissions/10.1080/13537903.2023.2180926?scroll=toprestricted accessSecularizaciónEspañaSociología de la religiónSociología HistóricaNarrativasReligión (Sociología)SociologíaCambio social6301.10 Sociología de la Religión