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- Title
In Search of Certainties: The Paradoxes of Religiosity in Societies of High Modernity.
- Authors
Hervieu-Léger, Danièle
- Abstract
This essay reports on the paradoxes of religion in high modern societies, and reviews the elements of religious modernity. At present, the individual compositions of belief is so diverse, and the organized structure of the belief systems authenticated by religious institutions is weakening. Individualization of beliefs dissolves inherited cultural identities, and results to the constitution, activation, and invention of small community identities which are compact, substantial, and compensatory.
- Subjects
RELIGION &; culture; RELIGION; MODERN society; RELIGIOUS institutions; RELIGIOUS communities; MODERNITY; CULTURAL identity; BELIEF &; doubt; PARADOX
- Publication
Hedgehog Review, 2006, Vol 8, Issue 1/2, p59
- ISSN
1527-9677
- Publication type
Essay