I'm Sure Putnam Is Right

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.

F. A. Hayek Is Probably The Most Prominent Advocate Of Capitalism In The Present Period.

There Are Times In History When The Dark Drums Of God Can Barely Be Heard Amid The Noises Of This World. Then It Is Only In Moments Of Silence, Which Are Rare And Brief, That Their Beat Can Be Faintly Discerned. There Are Other Times. These Are The Times When God Is Heard In Rolling Thunder, When The Earth Trembles And The Treetops Bend Under The Force Of [god’s] Voice. It Is Not Given To Men [and Women] To Make God Speak. It Is Only Given To Them To Live And To Think In Such A Way That, If God’s Thunder Should Come, They Will Not Have Stopped Their Ears.

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.