PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Spiritualism, Anthropocentrism, Italian Identity
Document Summary
European development is an exception, not a norm. 3 phenomena converge to create the impression of a worldwide resurgence of religion: missionary expansion, fundamentalist radicalization, political instrumentalization of the potential for violence innate in many of the world religions. Orthodox/conservative groups are on the advance everywhere. Regional spread of established religions in africa and east and southeast asia. Roman catholic church adapting better to the globalizing than the protestant churches. Fastest-growing religious movements can be described as fundamentalist (e. g. radical. Muslims: combat to the world or withdraw from it to isolation, spiritualism, adventism (p. 18, literal adherence to holy scriptures. New age movements: since 1970, de-institutionalized form of religious observance. Mullah regime in iran and islamic terrorism: most spectacular examples of a political unleashing of the potential for violence innate in religion. Weakness of the theory of secularization us due to rash interferences that betray an imprecise use of the concepts of secularization and modernization.
