SOC250Y1 Lecture Notes - New Age, Axial Age, Transcendental Meditation
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Intern social survey programme (issp) and the iworld values. Religion low importance ranking, for western europe (1998): Family (81%), work (53%), friends (43%), leisure (38%), religion (19%), politics (8%) Actual word of g-d : 55% poland, 26% italy, 6% denmark, 32% Inspired but not literal : 26% poland, 51% italy, 17% denmark, What kind of g-d? personal g-d 36% western europe, a spirit or vital force 34%, there is no g-d 11% 1981 european value survey: only 25% affirm there is only one true religion. 53% agree there are value to all religions. Anxiety of death will not disappear in post industrial societies. Axial ages = broad reshaping of the symbolic field, resulting in new understandings of human existence, social life, the cosmos. Jewish monotheism christianity and islam greek philosophy and humanism. Jasper s identified four decisive features of modernity: 1) primacy of modern science and technology. 2) craving for individual freedom and self-cultivation (romanticism)
