Religion and development: Introduction
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 14-10-14 17:39
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- Religion and development: Introduction
- For secularisation theory, modernisation undermines religion.
- The importance of science and technology in economic development and the rational worldview on which they depend, are seen as destroying belief in the supernatural.
- Religion may contribute to development too (like Weber and his belief of the protestant ethic.)
- More recently, sociologists have examined what role religion may play in development in today's globalised world.
- For secularisation theory, modernisation undermines religion.
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