Our Institute's Agenda Is Relatively Simple. We

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

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

If You Are Good For Nothing Else, You Can Still Serve As A Bad Example.

Religion Is The Human Attitude Towards A Sacred Order That Includes Within It All Being-human Or Otherwise-i.e., Belief In A Cosmos, The Meaning Of Which Both Includes And Transcends Man.

The Human Organism Is Thus Still Developing Biologically While Already Standing In A Relationship To Its Environmont. In Other Words, The Process Of Becoming Man Takes Place In An Interrelationship With An Environment. (...) From The Moment Of Birth, Man's Organismic Development, And Indeed A Large Part Of His Biological Being As Such, Are Subjected To Continuing Socially Determined Interference.