MODERNITY. Many factors working together have generated interest in modernity and religion. Among these are an increasing consciousness of the many human societies that now exist, an awareness of previous societies recorded in history, and a...

Modernity refers to a historical period which began in Western Europe with a series of cultural, social and economic changes during the seventeenth century, and it is usually characterized by three features: first, culturally, a reliance on reason and...

So far I have discussed a point of reference (the modern, the moment without precedent), a process (modernization as the shedding of tradition), and a cultural movement characterized by certain kinds of cultural product (modernism). Finally we arrive...

So much is made of ‘post’ modernity, and with phrases like ‘the crisis of modernity’ abounding; it seems necessary to have some sense of what is actually meant by modernity or the modern age itself. In its most trivial sense, of...

A philosophical and sociological concept used to describe the post-traditional society, which emerged after the...

Modernity is a term used to describe the condition of being related to modernism. Since the term "modern" is used to describe a wide range of periods, modernity must be understood in its context, the industrial age of the 19th century, and its role in...