SOCI 2660 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Industrial Revolution, Medieval Commune, Totalitarianism
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1 the secular messiahs the decline of christian. There has been a marked decline in the role played by formal religious systems, by the churches, in western societies. Some locate this decline in the rise of scientific rationalism during the renaissance. Others credit it to the explicit secularism of the. Enlightenment with its ironies of superstition and all churches. Furthermore, some believe it was darwinism and modern technology during the industrial revolution which made systematic beliefs, theology, and the ancient centrality of the churches so obsolete. Gradually, the christian faiths lost their hold over sensibility and over daily existence. The religious core of the individual and community degenerated into social convention. The decay of a comprehensive christian doctrine had left in disorder essential perceptions of social justice, of the meaning of human history, of the relationships between mind and body, of the place of knowledge in our moral conduct.