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Argument
This paper aims at identifying and discussing the dilemma of religious belief in
modernity. It will show the unavoidable conflicts different individuals we have learned about
have witnessed to establish whether or not such conflicts between modernity and religion remain
resolvable. A justification is given as to whether we can solve the identified conflicts between
religion and modernity. The main thesis for this paper is that modernity and religion are
controversial in terms of secularization, technology, and science, but we hold that this
controversy remains resolvable.
Sources
The article, “Subject of the Study: Religious Sociology and the Theory of Knowledge"
will be used in the final paper to get the best religion definition as ““religion is a unified system
of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-
beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those
who adhere to them” (p. 6). This source will, therefore, forms the basis of my understanding of
religion so that I can easily identify any deviation from the definition as a conflict.
The second article “Gender secularization theory” will also be used to understand the
contribution of current theories of secularization as given by this quote, “so existing theories of
secularization do good job of explaining men’s religious disaffiliation but a bad job of