Assumption Quote by Ulrich Beck Download Open image “The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.” — Ulrich Beck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assumption Modernity Overcoming Religion Secular
“The process of secularisation arises not from the loss of faith but from the loss of social interest in the world of faith. It… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous… — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
“Religion in modern society is only artificially kept together and upheld by the Church and by those Governments to whose social or private interest… — Ármin Vámbéry Copy Share Image
Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions,… — Huston Smith 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 was that… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The fact remains that secularism is inherent in the Indian system, in the Indian ethos and culture. India cannot but be secular. — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Secularization—that is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this fading age—is not just something that happens… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
“The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but about the… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized. — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life. — Philip Selznick Copy Share Image
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
