Religion Quotes by Peter L. Berger

8 Religion quotes by Peter L. Berger

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Peter L. Berger’s short collection of religious musings showcases his knack for linking faith to social structures. These eight snippets serve as a handy primer on his analytical approach.

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India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a…

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“religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.”

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Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the…

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There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the…

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One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call…

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Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the…

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I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument…

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The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a…

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In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

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F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

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“It is in the legitimation of death that the transcending potency of symbolic universes manifests itself most clearly, and the fundamental terror-assuaging character of…

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An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

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It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism,…

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On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the…

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“One of the traits of sophistication is the capacity to cross borders between different cultural relevancies. Humor is often, intentionally or not, the result…

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“All human activity is subject to habitualization. Any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern, which can then be reproduced with…

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Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit…

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“Activity becomes process. Choices become destiny. Men then live in the world they themselves have made as if they were fated to do so…

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“...his consuming interest remains in the world of men, their institutions, their history, their passions. And because he is interested in men, nothing that…

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