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A Religious Realignment
Charismatic and Pentecostal expressions of Christianity have fared much better in the age of authenticity because at a minimum they are entertaining, but at their best they create space for experience—most powerfully, experiences of transcendence.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
When we throw our hands up at religion and flatten its role in our lives, societies, and institutions, we allow hegemonic power to go unchecked.
Religiously Blonde • How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future
We’re often told that ‘religion is in decline.’ Belief is plummeting and the pews are emptying. In fact, between 1999 and 2020 — almost every country across Eurasia and the Americas showed stark declines in religious belief. But that isn’t the full story, and many believe religion is as much a force as it ever was. It’s just changed shape.
Alexander Beiner • Is Religion Coming Back?
Sociologists Peter Berger and Grace Davie report that “most sociologists of religion now agree” that the secularization thesis—that religion declines as a society becomes more modern—“has been empirically shown to be false.”63 Countries such as China are becoming more religious (and Christian) even as they modernize.