Peter Berger on the Explosive Growth of Pentecostalism
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February 5, 2013 | Renowned sociologist Peter Berger argues that secularization theory-the idea that modernity necessarily leads to a decline of religion-has been falsified. Rather than an age of secularity, ours is an age of pluralism. In other words, the problem of modernity is not that the gods have fled, but that there are too many of them around.
Berger discussed his ideas on religion and modernity and sketched an outline of a possible theory of pluralism for the modern era.
Peter Berger is one of the foremost scholars in the field of sociology of religion. He is professor emeritus of Religion, Sociology and Theology and served previously as the founding director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University. He has also taught at University of North Carolina, Hartford Theological Seminary, Rutgers, and the New School for Social Research. His work has focused on sociological theory, sociology of religion, and issues at the intersection of theology and social science. His recent works include Questions of Faith: A Skeptical Reaffirmation of Christianity (2004), Religious America, Secular Europe (2008, with Grace Davie and Effie Fokas), and In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions without Becoming a Fanatic (2009, with Anton Zijderveld). Berger earned his B.A. from Wagner College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research.
As a Christian and as an Anthropologist I thought that's an amazing insight from research. Connecting the Health Wealth Prosperity message to growth. As a Christian outside the USA I think charismatic/Pentecostal churches are main stream Christians now. Census figures hide this because many of traditional church affiliates don't attend church but just tick boxes on census forms. And even those attending Pentecostal churches regular still tick boxes on Census forms of their family original churches. But simply seeing the size of congregations on Sundays tells you their has been a significant shift and recruitment to Pentecostal forms. I have heard from reliable sources in Philippines that some mosques are,actually Pentecostal gatherings but they keep the outward Muslim identity to protect the ppls in a predominant Muslim area. If it was possible it be great research to see if these pentecostal mosques had greater social movement in those societies as a result.
The Bible says on the past days he will pour out his spirit!
And the Lord will come back to defeat the Islamic Antichrist
@@sunnycriti9809 Jacob Rothschild ( real surname: Bauer ( it was Changed in 1770's ). Or one of the Rockefeller's is the Anti-Christ.
U.N. Agenda 21 / Agenda 2030 / The Great Reset, have nothing to do with the Muslim world.
Peter Ludwig Berger was born on March 17, 1929, in Vienna, Austria, to George William and Jelka (Loew) Berger, who were Jewish converts to Christianity. He emigrated to the United States shortly after World War II in 1946 at the age of 17 and in 1952 he became a naturalized citizen. He died on June 27, 2017, in his Brookline, Massachusetts, home after a prolonged illness.
On September 28, 1959, he married Brigitte Kellner, herself an eminent sociologist who was on the faculty at Wellesley College and Boston University where she was the chair of the sociology department at both schools. Brigitte was born in Eastern Germany in 1928. She moved to the United States in the mid-1950s. She was a sociologist who focused on the sociology of the family, arguing that the nuclear family was one of the main causes of modernization. Although she studied traditional families, she supported same-sex relationships.
" supported same-sex relationships. ".
That's All The Clue You Need to know what his wife really was about and maybe him too!