When Lennon released “Imagine” in 1971, his vision of a religion-free world was less a dream and more a growing consensus. To be sure, the atheistic regimes of the day were far from “living life in peace,” but sociologists found it easy to “imagine no religion” in a rapidly modernizing world. The logic was simple—in Western Europe, modernization had bred secularization. That trajectory would continue, and where Europe led, the rest of the world would follow.
There was only one problem with this “secularization hypothesis.”
It was wrong. Read More
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