Effects of Modernization on Religious Change
Gradual changes have taken place in the religious sector from traditional religious forms. Religious studies are dominated by three assumptions, with the most fundamental premise writing into the definition of the subject of the notion that religion is good for the human psyche (Douglas, 1982). The second assumption is that moderns are much different from everyone due to the effects of modernization. The last assumption is the notion that culture is always capable of being autonomous, which is rising in the modern era.
The main argument about religion crisis because of modernization depends on what the definition of religion is to a particular individual. Different definitions of religion exist. Peter Berger defines religion as, “Empirically speaking, what is commonly called religion involves aggregation of human attitude, beliefs, and actions in the face of two types of experience. The experience of supernatural, and the experience of sacred.” Dupre also has his definition of religion, which concentrates on, “a commitment to the transcendent as to another reality.” Daniel Bell’s definition of religion depends on coherence instead of integration (Douglas, 1982). Daniel begins by defining culture as modalities of reply to vital existential glitches, queries about life, demise, responsibility, and affection. Theodicies also tend to differ in the degree of rational coherence, and consistency in their clarifications.
Confusion, elitism, and bias explain more why religious studies are not expecting certain religious forms to be preferred or ancient religion to come threateningly alive. The biggest challenge of faced by modernization is not so much in any reduced possibility of religious belief but in accepting the increased opportunity of inquiry.
In conclusion, I think all the theories and stereotype of modernization are wrong. Most premodern have been organized according to the stereotypes, in highly ascriptive social institutions. At the point when religious human science modernizes, it will create a relative experimental request that does equity to the scope of human experience and will build up some orderly strategies for asking how exceptional excellent standards become adequate and various renditions of reality conceivable.
References
Douglas, M. (1982). The effects of modernization on religious change. Daedalus, 1-19.