The Many Altars of Modernity. Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age
Religions and religious communities are currently showing tendencies towards both more liberalism and more fundamentalism. The religious field has become more complex - and more conflictual. Modernisation does not necessarily lead to a decline in religions, but to a pluralisation of world views and value systems. Nevertheless, the secularisation thesis is not simply outdated. Rather, it is correct to recognise that an influential secular discourse has taken its place alongside the religious discourse - this can be studied in hospitals, for example. It is therefore necessary to distinguish between intra-religious pluralism and the pluralism of religious and secular discourses. The book by the renowned sociologist of religion Peter L. Berger claims to develop a new paradigm for recording and analysing this current pluralism.
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