Humanity, Globalization, and Worldwide Religious Resurgence: A Theoretical Exploration
In recent years we have witnessed a remarkable occurrence of religion-connected sociocultural phenomena across the globe; notably, a resurgence of religious “fundamentalisms,” many of them emphasizing the intimacy of religious and political issues; a large number of cases of church-state tension; an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1985
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1985, Volume: 46, Issue: 3, Pages: 219-242 |
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| Summary: | In recent years we have witnessed a remarkable occurrence of religion-connected sociocultural phenomena across the globe; notably, a resurgence of religious “fundamentalisms,” many of them emphasizing the intimacy of religious and political issues; a large number of cases of church-state tension; and the rise of many new religious movements. It is argued that the globality of the resurgence of religious and quasi-religious concerns can only be understood in sociological terms by establishing an analytical schema which grasps the global circumstances as such and which conceptualizes the processes yielding the evolutionary-historical thematization of humanity. Presentation of that agrument is followed by a brief discussion of relevant classical and contemporary sociological perspectives. The paper concludes with an analytical explication of the global-human condition in terms of major dimensions of the process of globalization and in reference to the significance of religious and sacred implications of that process. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710691 |