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Meaning and Modernisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Robert N. Bellah
Robert N. Bellah
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Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
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Modernisation, whatever else it involves, is always a moral and a religious problem. If it has sometimes been hailed as an exhilarating challenge to create new values and meanings it has also often been feared as a threat to an existing pattern of values and meanings. In either case the personal and social forces called into play have been powerful.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , October 1968 , pp. 37 - 45
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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