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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…
• I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then…
• But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense,…
• In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered…
• Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
• And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in…
• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
• The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
• Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
• Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
• Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves…
• 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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