Modernity Is A Normal Part Of Daily Life That Has Made Its Way Into Religion

Secularisation theory has argued that modernisation has undermined religion. The importance of science and technology on economic development and rational worldview on which they depend on are seen as destroying the belief in supernatural. However religion can contribute to development, but most recently sociologists have examined what role religion may play in development in today’s globalising world.

Lyon, a postmodernist, supports the idea that traditional religion is giving way to a variety of new religious beliefs and practices because we are living in a postmodern society. In this society globalisation, the increased importance of the media and communications and the growth of consumerism all create a new era of diversity and choice in all aspects of life. Lyon demonstrates how these have affected religion. We are now exposed to a wider range of religious ideas than ever before and these have become ‘disembedded’ from their original local contexts so we can now adapt ideas and beliefs to suit our own purposes. Much new religious belief is simply a watered down version of Eastern religions, adapted to suit Western tastes. Practice of worship is also different because it is no longer necessary to attend a local church. Instead the ‘electronic church’ on the internet and televangelism allow us to stay at home. However, if it is difficult to get convincing statistics of how many people attend church and what effect this has on them, it is even more difficult to research the numbers involved in and the influence of this new form of worship.

For example, Giddens states that society has entered a period of late modernity. Giddens does not argue that what post modernists say can be true, and the changes that they identify have occurred, but that this state of late modernity is caused by our own interpretations of society (?) so that the knowledge we gain from society is what affects the way we act in society, it is characterised by what he would describe as 'reflexivity', this being where people think for themselves about how to live their lives, it is not all down to media creating the need for consumption.

In what ways were the intellectual and cultural developments in the Western world between 1800 and 1914 related to the economic, social, and political developments?

What can our contemporary society learn from 1750 CE to the Present about “civilization?” Contemporary society refers to a modern society, at the time being, and features innovations that help the society evolve. It is characterized by increasing human interconnection, the evolution of the humane ways of life, and the ecological/anthropological transformation. A civilization is the process by which a society reaches social organization and development. Most civilizations consist of a community of humans who have some sort of government or leaders to keep everything in order.

The prefix, Modo, is a word derived from the Latin language, which means “now” in the English language (Latin Dictionary). Words like mode, modern, modernity, modernize, and modernization uses the prefix to portray the current aspect of doing something to produce a result. The results might have an advantage or disadvantage. Paul Gilroy, author of “The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness” describes how he developed the book, “The Black Atlantic developed from my uneven attempts to show these students that the experiences of black people were part of the abstract modernity” (Black Atlantic, pg. ix) which describes the role in modernity and the experience of African Americans through the brutality of slavery. Consequently, History impacts the present, and changes the future.

We, as Muslims, must first address the issue at hand, can and should Muslims be able to modernize in the 21st century and still be Muslim? This is something that many Muslims stumble over and it causes divisions within the Islamic faith. We must understand that they are mutually exclusive entities because you can have one without the other. Modernization is merely accepting the new technological and scientific advances without accepting the ideologies of the West. Muhammad Abduh, Hassan al-Banna, and Sayyid Qutb all believed that to modernize was not necessarily to westernize. To westernize is to begin to change our beliefs and ideologies to align with the West. We as Muslims do not have to accept their

After then the views on modern people continued to change. Current day what is seemingly a modern person is someone who is more integrated in the technological world. Almost every person has some form of social media. Many also see and entrepreneurs as the modern person, which nowadays could be anyone. Many will also tell you the general idea of the modern person hasn’t changed though.

After World War I, many different things occurred in Europe. The relationships between the different European powers changed. The economies and governments of each country changed. Even the people changed in different forms due to their country 's successes of failures. However, two things that changed in which most people neglect is thought and culture. After the world wars, the thoughts of the enlightenment were over and the thought of existentialism started to take over. Even the art started to change to the point where Dada (a.k.a. nothing) starts to become the major art form. After the World War, culture and thought started to drastically change.

Modernity, it is a macro process of transition from traditional to modern society. “Formation of a modern political map of the world began in early 1800 in Western Europe and maybe characterized as the product of the twin revolutions.” European colonization of the New World, the economic and political development of new territories led to significant changes in the political map. Modernity it is a complex of multi-faceted process that took a place in Europe during the 18th century and had covered all aspects of society. The modernity of the production meant the industrialization - is constantly growing use of machines. In the social sphere modernization is closely linked with urbanization, an unprecedented growth of cities, which led to prevailing in the economic life of society. In the political sphere modernity meant the democracy of political structures, laying the preconditions for the formation of a civil society and rule of law. In the spiritual realm associated with secularization -: the release of all spheres of public and private life from the separation of religion and the church, their worldliness and intensive development of literacy, education, scientific knowledge. All of these are inextricably linked to each other processes of change emotional attitudes of man,

In this report I will be comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences between the religious tradition Christianity, with the world view of Secular Humanism.

There are many different perspectives on the growth of modernity. Society is constantly changing as more time passes by. People like Emile Durkheim and Max Weber both offer their own individual perspective on how the growth of modernity came about and how we have come to understand today’s society. In the 1890s period Emile Durkheim a sociologist, in France watched the transformation of society go from a ‘primitive’ stance into something more complex also known as ‘organic solidarity’. Max Weber a German sociologist on the other hand, his view was in regards to how the growth of government was a driving force in modernity to maintain order, organisation and administration of specialised functions. Both theses sociologists’ theories are

According to Marshall Berman, Modernity is a term of art used in the Humanities and Social Sciences to designate both a historical period as well as the ensemble of a particular socio cultural norms attitudes and practices that arose in post medieval Europe and have developed since in various ways and at various times around the world. (Berman 2010, 15-36)

Modernization means to go from a known tradition over to newer modern society like newer trade and industry methods and importing. A modern society is more cohesive since more people are involved in the process like politics, schoools, police and the army.

Berger defines secularization as the process by which sectors of society and culture are removed from the domination of religious institutions and symbols. Removal of religion from social structures refers to the separation of the church from the state, and the emancipation of education from religious authority. Removal from the cultural sector refers to the separation of religion from art, philosophy and literature, and the rise of science. (107)He states that the process has a subjective manifestation as well, the secularization of individuals consciousness.(108) This construction of the secularization process presents a linear, reductive process where the world departs from “nomos” into “anomy”. Nomos is defined as the laws and customs which enable a sense of connection and meaning, a world where religion and everyday life exists together as part of the cosmos. Anomy is described as a sense of separation from the world, the absence of nomos characterized by chaos. (slides). Secularization is bought about by the shrinkage in the