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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize…
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I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then…
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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense,…
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered…
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in…
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
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Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
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Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves…
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in…
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.
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Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
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...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than…
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