Peter Berger, Religion and Modernity

Peter L. Berger is not unknown for students of Social Sciences. I just finished her distinguished book: ’’The Homeless Mind’’. He describes in this book that how objective modernity connects to subjective modernity and how modernity changes the consciousness of people.Technology and bureaucracy are two turning points of modernism and all other parts of modern world relate to these, parts like Urbanism, institutional differentiation and …

The main term for Berger in this book is Consciousness. He tells us that modern consciousness is completely different from, to say, old or traditional consciousness and the modern consciousness consist the character of new man. In other word modern man means modern consciousness.
Modern man has at all a different point of view. He sees everything from another perspective and therefore Religion is too another thing for him, not like before. He doesn’t need religion to justify his lack of knowledge…

All these but are about industrial societies. People in Third World have another reflection to the modernism and its consciousness.

Whit entrances of modernity to the third world appear two social trends: either third world society goes to communism or to a kind of social movement, and the two are from effects of modernism.

Religious movement is one of these social movements and that is completely far from, or better to say, opposed to tendency that industrial societies has adopted toward modernity.