But We Don't Have An Example Of

On The One Hand, Man Is A Body, In The Same Way That This May Be Said Of Every Other Animal Organism. On The Other Hand, Man Has A Body. That Is, Man Experiences Himself As An Entity That Is Not Identical With His Body, But That, On The Contrary, Has That Body At Its Disposal. In Other Words, Man's Experience Of Himself Always Hovers In A Balance Between Being And Having A Body, A Balance That Must Be Redressed Again And Again.

In Acute Suffering The Need For Meaning Is As Strong Or Stronger Than The Need For Happiness.

I Think What I And Most Other Sociologists Of Religion Wrote In The 1960s About Secularization Was A Mistake. Our Underlying Argument Was That Secularization And Modernity Go Hand In Hand. With More Modernization Comes More Secularization

The Past Is Malleable And Flexible, Changing As Our Recollection Interprets And Re-explains What Has Happened.

We Also Have A Cultural Phenomenon: The Emergence Of A Global Culture, Or Of Cultural Globalization