RLG210Y1 Lecture : March 21.docx
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These developments have led to changes in 1) the place of religion in society, 2) the standing and functioning of religious institutions, and in 3) the nature of religiosity: 1) the marginalization/displacement/substitutions or religious traditions by formal rationalism, scientism (growing faith in science. Clues on how to live their lives), individualism (weber thesis), materialism (understood largely with material), and consumerism ( 2) fostering and reinforcing a general secularization. In modern societies things become more secularized less emphasis on scripture or religious commandments. Islamic, hindu, etc , affirm the authority of the sacred, uphold traditional gender roles, oppose moral decay ] is shaped by modernity a reaction against the new but not a restoration of the old selective recreation of a tradition. 4) the emergence/intensification of quasi-religious cultural forms. Civil religions nationalism, or cult of the state. Grand ideologies such as socialism, communism, ecology concerns. Seeker" or new age spirituality [aromatherapy, crystals, meditation, astrology, holistic mind/body purifications, etc. ]
