"The basic assumption of the secular society is……" — Ulrich Beck
"The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion."
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Ulrich Beck
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28 Quotes by Ulrich Beck
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we…
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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…
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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a…
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had…
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one…
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of…
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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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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…
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military…
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And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
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