Critically assess the claim that New Religious Movements represent a challenge to the secularization thesis

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Religion

 

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Clinton B

 

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April 12, 2011

 

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University

 

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Very few people expected religion to disappear completely, assigning religion to a legitimate space in the private sphere and that religious institutions would undergo a process of internal secularization and would increasingly adapt to the requirements’ of modern structures while maintaining their religious symbolism...
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Some imagined that national ideologies or civil religions would replace religious traditions , or expected religious values to permeate modern societies leaving behind the tradition forms of religion. But few were prepared for the global resurgence of religions as public forces and powerful shapers of religious subjects...
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