Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable
to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith.
Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the
sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see
religion as vital to society's spiritual and moral well-being. But
does modernization lead to secularization? Does secularization lead
to moral decay? Sociologist Hans Joas argues that these two
supposed certainties have kept scholars from serious contemporary
debate and that people must put these old arguments aside in order
for debate to move forward. The emergence of a "secular option"
does not mean that religion must decline, but that even believers
must now define their faith as one option among many.
In this book, Joas spells out some of the consequences of the
abandonment of conventional assumptions for contemporary religion
and develops an alternative to the cliche of an inevitable conflict
between Christianity and modernity. Arguing that secularization
comes in waves and stressing the increasing contingency of our
worlds, he calls upon faith to articulate contemporary experiences.
Churches and religious communities must take into account religious
diversity, but the modern world is not a threat to Christianity or
to faith in general. On the contrary, Joas says, modernity and
faith can be mutually enriching.
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