Is modernity inherently secularizing? Do certain basic features of modern life implacably diminish the plausibility and power of religion? To many in the Catholic Church today, the answer would likely be an anxious yes. Certainly the church over recent centuries has found modernity to be a challenging adversary. Individualism and relativism are rampant in the United States and (...)
November 04, 2011
Books
Eurocentrist
SecularizationIn Defense of an Unfashionable Theory Steve BruceOxford University Press, $45, 243 pp.
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