I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.
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Jay Asher
Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of...
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Jodi Picoult
Think, think, think.
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A.a. Milne
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
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Yogi Berra
Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Peter L. Berger
A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
