In Acute Suffering The Need For Meaning

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

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

The Past Is Malleable And Flexible, Changing As Our Recollection Interprets And Re-explains What Has Happened.

Even If One Is Interested Only In One's Own Society, Which Is One's Prerogative, One Can Understand That Society Much Better By Comparing It With Others.