Precarious Canopy of The Sacred: According To Peter Berger, The Meaning Of Belief In The Age Of Pluralism
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The experience of religion, multiple choice, relativism, fundamentalism, bad faithAbstract
Pluralism is the most important feature that distinguishes modern society from pre-modern societies. The structure of preferences in the competion replace religious symbolical universe which unifies and integrates differances. In this structure, what is the religion of the future is the topic of the sociological debates. In this study, we will discuss the views of Peter L. Berger, who is one of the leading sociologists of contemporary sociology, about pluralism and religious reality. Firstly, we’ll investigate the passage of construction of social world from a taken for granted reality to individual decision-making process. Secondly, we will focus on the notion of denomination as a form of organization developed to survive in the multiple choice regime of the market system. Thirdly in the context of Berger’s late works, we’ll try to find out reproduction of religion as a thinking style on the axis of two opposing concepts: fundamentalism and relativism. Lastly, we’ll interpret Berger’s claim in Precarious Vision that the religion is not a founder of social discourse but is constructed by social discourse.
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