PSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hindutva, Modernization Theory, Primordialism
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There is a resurgence of religion today. Religion is about ideas and doctrines: relationship to other religions, relationship to political authority. Christianity is the largest religion (31. 5% of the world population: then muslims. Ex: there has been a rise in christianity in africa (evangelicals) Ex: differing levels of religiosities --> pakistan is 99. 7% Predicts that increase in economic development leads to secularization: this is because changing values leads to a more rationalistic world view, science, individualism, materialism. Ex: countries with most atheists is western europe and even some eastern european countries due to communism. An exception of modernization theory is the us --> increasing religiousness. There is some negative correlation between economic development and religious practice: however, religion is holding steady or growing in many places, global increase, more devoutness. New and more intense forms of belief: evangelicals, shi"a revival in iran and iraq, hindutva. There"s mixed evidence to the secularization thesis. Conflict within faiths: fundamentalism vs. reform.
