The Future of Religion

Author: (USA) Stark, (USA) Brenchley, translated by Gao Shining et al.
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Since the Enlightenment, most Western intellectuals have believed that religion would decline. However, the authors of this book propose an alternative view: religion will endure in the future. Although secularization is a dominant trend in modern times, it does not signal the demise of religion. When secularization succeeds in certain aspects of a society, religious resistance emerges. While mainstream religious organizations in any society gradually become more secular with the pace of secularization, this is not the end of religion but rather a shift in the fate of various religions. For beliefs that have become too worldly will be replaced by more vibrant, less worldly religions.