If A Socialist Economy Is Opened Up

I Think What I And Most Other Sociologists Of Religion Wrote In The 1960s About Secularization Was A Mistake. Our Underlying Argument Was That Secularization And Modernity Go Hand In Hand. With More Modernization Comes More Secularization

He Who Has The Bigger Stick Has The Better Chance Of Imposing His Definitions Of Reality.

Our Institute's Agenda Is Relatively Simple. We Study The Relationship Between Social-economic Change And Culture. By Culture We Mean Beliefs, Values And Lifestyles. We Cover A Broad Range Of Issues, And We Work Very Internationally.

Let Me Say Again That The Relationship Is Asymmetrical: There's No Democracy Without A Market Economy, But You Can Have A Market Economy Without Democracy.

The Basic Fault Lines Today Are Not Between People With Different Beliefs But Between People Who Hold These Beliefs With An Element Of Uncertainty And People Who Hold These Beliefs With A Pretense Of Certitude