“religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.” — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
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… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“In sum, the actor identifies with the socially objectivated typifications of conduct in actu, but re-establishes distance from them as he reflects about his… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“Different objects present themselves to consciousness as constituents of different spheres of reality. I recognize the fellowmen I must deal with in the course… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“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… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism,… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“One of the traits of sophistication is the capacity to cross borders between different cultural relevancies. Humor is often, intentionally or not, the result… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“All human activity is subject to habitualization. Any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern, which can then be reproduced with… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
