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| | Eurozine - The role of religion in establishing social cohesion - Danièle Hervieu-Léger |
 | | It is only, for example, in certain countries, where churches are deserted at all times of the year other than the main religious festivals (Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands), that religious structures seem to have weakened to the point of collapse. |
| | Comparison with the United States is valid here because this erosion of religion in modern societies was long held, across the entire spectrum of sociological thought, to be an unavoidable feature of modernity itself, even a condition of modernization. |
| | Less and less associated with the arrival of the Kingdom, or even with the radical or gradual transformation of society, the ideal of accomplishment is increasingly centred on the individual, part of a trend not of dismissing, but of "subjectivizing", utopia, which is perceived as a radical alternative to the experience of the present. |
| www.eurozine.com /articles/2006-08-17-hervieuleger-en.html (5921 words) |
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