![]() ![]() Stark notes that secularization theorists “limit the focus to major, well-organized faiths such as Christianity and Hinduism. To prove this point, Stark takes readers on a whirlwind tour of global religious trends. In important ways, it is much more intensely religious than ever before indeed, it is far more churched” (emphasis added). ![]() As Rodney Stark writes in The Triumph of Faith, “The world is not merely as religious as it used to be. For mid-century Western intellectuals, the future looked godless.Ī funny thing happened on the way to secularity, however. The process is inevitable.” Scientific knowledge, it was thought, would lead to material wellbeing, and material wellbeing would lead to a secular society. Wallace expressed the belief of many Western intellectuals when he wrote, “Belief in supernatural powers is doomed to die out all over the world as a result of the increasing adequacy and diffusion of scientific knowledge…. Hardcover | Kindleįifty years ago, Anthony F. ![]() Rodney Stark, The Triumph of Faith: Why the World Is More Religious Than Ever (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2015). ![]()
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