Quote by Mary Douglas
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more privat

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion. – Mary Douglas

Other quotes by Mary Douglas

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. – Mary Douglas

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Science
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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? – Mary Douglas

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Jealousy
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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. – Mary Douglas

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Change
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Other Quotes from
Religion
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need. – Harvey Cox

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Religion

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. – Ulrich Beck

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Religion

Its not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. Its that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. – Godfrey Reggio

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Religion

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion its too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system. – Vera Farmiga

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Religion

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