Tikvah
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February 8, 2016

The Modern City: Where Religions and Secularism Live Side by Side

The hospital as pluralistic secular temple.

Dissenting both from those who see secularization as an inexorable march in one direction and from those who see a resurgence of religion moving in the opposite direction, Peter Berger argues that one of the defining features of modernity is the ability of religion—in fact, many religions—to exist side by side with various forms of secularism. Take, for instance, a hospital:

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