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This 4-page paper discusses how religion continues to be persistent, though society is more secularized than ever. The argument of the paper is that the force of religion has changed in nature.
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and observations, and especially in the absence of technology that could explain the causes of many seemingly "miraculous" things, people attributed almost everything to religion and spiritualism.
If this held true, then it would also hold true that today, while were living in the so-called "age of reason," that religion wouldnt necessarily
have the hold over us as it might have done thousands of years ago. We know, for example, what causes shooting stars, solar eclipses and earthquakes. We have witnessed minor
miracles through technology, such as the ability to travel across continents in a matter of hours, as opposed to weeks - and we can talk to people on the other
side of the world in "real time." We know the technological reasons behind such things. But does this mean that religion doesnt
have the same hold over us as it did at one time? The truth is, that religion does continue to have a hold over our society much as it did
in the Middle Ages - but in a different way. In their book, Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide, authors Ronald Ingelhart and Pippa Norris point out that the
theory of the secular, in other words, the idea that religion would fade in significance as the industrial society grew in importance, is simply not holding up. The authors point
out other experts, who "point to multiple indicators of religious health and vitality today, ranging from the continued popularity of churchgoing in the United States to the emergence of New
Age spirituality in Western Europe." (p. 1). Added to this, the authors continue, is the growth of fundamentalism in the Muslim areas, and evangelism in Latin America.
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