Main Theme: Religion and Multiple Modernities

Abstract

The author analyzes different views on the relations between religion and modernity, which appear in the social theory of the 20th-21st centuries. The paper provides critical analysis and assessment of secularization theories which claimed incompatibility between religion and modernity. Finally, the article deals with a relatively new contribution made by the concept of 'multiple modernities' elaborated by Shmuel Eisenstadt. This concept both softens and shades the findings of the secularization theorists.