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A Religious Realignment
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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.
The cultural environment was perfect for this shift in pastoral identity; the spiritual markets were unregulated, the hegemony of established religion was done, mainline Protestant America was over, and yet the age of authenticity and its nova effect moved people to seek spirituality. The monopolies were broken up, and yet there was spiritual deman
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