German Sociologist of Religion: to Imagine a Future Without Religion Is Like Imagining It Without Dance or Sex
Imagining a world without religion or “the sacred” is like imagining a world without dance, music, sex, or other enchanting and transcendent experiences. Religion is not dead. Throughout the 20th century, most sociologists assumed otherwise. While both Max Weber and Émile Durkheim, two of sociology’s founding fathers, were fascinated by the relationship between religion and society, they agreed that religion would fade as society modernized. Their sociological heirs inherited their disinterest in religion. Peter Birkelund Andersen has been in Kristeligt Dagblad recently for his work on Danish values. But to…
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