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Critically assess the claim that New Religious Movements represent a challenge to the secularization thesis


The dramatic global resurgence of religious movements over the last decade has caught many people by surprise. To most, such a resurgence came as a surprise since according to modernization myth, religion was supposed to be headed towards a continuous path of secularization and privatization. Indeed, this myth presented us with several options for the fate of religion in the modern world, but neither a return of religion as a public force, nor its ability to shape people according to its own ethos and instil into them a new habitus was among them. Very few people expected religion to disappear completely, assigning religion to a legitimate space in the private sphere and that religious institutions would undergo a process of internal secularization and would increasingly adapt to the requirements’ of modern structures while maintaining their religious symbolism.......

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