RELIGST 2N03 Lecture 2: Post-Secular Society and Religious Diversity
19 Jul 2016
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Material religion and post-secular society 9 june 2016. I think what i and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. Most of the world today is certainly not secular. It"s very religious (peter berger, 1997 in an interview published in christianity today). Religion and secularism: secularism and the separation of religion and politics in the modern west is the exception rather than the rule in the history humankind. Post-secularity & diversity (dillon: according to habermas religion can offer answers to modern social pathologies including, rampant consumerism, wealth inequality. Burka bans in post-secular societies: the arguments (kim) Nevertheless: unaffiliated category will increase in numbers but decline as a percentage (from 16% to. 13%) of the global population due to continuing high birth rates amongst muslims and. Issues of accommodation, pluralism, tolerance will continue to be fraught.
