.. With the rise of modern scientific (or 'rational') knowledge religion is, for the first time, challenged by the disparate claims of other life-orders (Lebensordnungen).. a polytheistic and disordered world of competing values and ideals.. the economic, political, aesthetic, erotic and intellectual, which, with the onset of modernity, separate out into relatively autonomous realms (the process of Eigengeseztlichkeit) with their own value-spheres (Wertsphären). . Nicholas Gane
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The quote above is from the book "Eleven Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. Mr. Verne was making a social commentary about the modern world. He was describing how science has almost completely taken over our lives and how it has completely changed our world.

For thousands of years before the advent of modern science, people used to believe in God and all the religious beliefs that went with it. Then, suddenly, science came along and challenged what people thought about God. This quote is trying to show that there are many different kinds of religions, even though they all seem to be arguing against each other.

The word "religion" here is used to describe all types of beliefs because it encompasses everything from Christianity to Buddhism to Taoism.

Source: Max Weber And Postmodern Theory: Rationalization Versus Reenchantment

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