The Christian Century, August 26th, 1998
The advance of modernity does not necessarily lead to a decline in religion. Protestantism is built on the tenet of 'by faith alone'. The uncertainty that modern pluralism - even relativism - fosters can be incorporated into a strong religious faith.
In the course of my career as a sociologist of religion I made one big mistake and had one big insight (arguably not such a bad record). The big mistake, which I shared with almost everyone who worked in this area in the 1950s and '60s, was to believe that modernity necessarily leads to a decline in religion. The big insight was that pluralism un...
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