The Fall and The Rise of Religion
The world is a place of constant change where it is hard to predict how the outcome of certain transformations would affect other factors. Many sociologists and theorists thought that modernity and rationality brought by the enlightenment movement in 18th century would leave no place for religion in people’s lives. However, their secularist theories were proved wrong by the rise of sacralization which is verified by fundamentalist movements that stir up the world such as the Evangelical movement.
Peter Berger, who used to be a defender of the secularization theory, defines it “as a process in which religion diminishes in importance both in society and in the consciousness of individuals”(Berger, Secularization and De-Secularization ,291). It has been thought that the major reason for the fall of religion was the rise of modernity. However, looking at the heat that religion is bringing up in the world, such as the Evangelical movement and......
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