The New Evangelization and its Assumptions

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Published on: September 10, 2014

The Many Altars of Modernity

The New Evangelization and its Assumptions Peter Berger

There is an underlying assumption shared by both religious conservatives and their progressive antagonists (they just differ on what to do about it): that modernity means a decline of religion and its concomitant morality. That’s not exactly right, however.

Fair notice: this post contains an extended reference to my just-published book, The Many Altars of Modernity: Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age (Berlin and Boston, De Gruyter, 2014). Of course I have a material interest in every reader of my blog purchasing at least ten copies of the book. I have consulted Atwater, Bianchi and Haywood-Papadopoulos, Handbook of Blogging Ethics: Since the main thesis of the book is relevant to many issues regularly discussed in the blog, it is ethical to draw attention to the book in the blog, commercial considerations notwithstanding. In any...

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