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• Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by…
• When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which…
• In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.
• But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative…
• I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument…
• The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture
• He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer]…
• In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.
• There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then…
• A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it,…
• To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one…
• 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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