#modernization

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

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#argument #comes #go #hand #i

It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great scars of modern advertising along the river frontage, it seemed a once beautiful theatre-set that modern Turkey had thrown aside in favour of the steel and concrete flat-iron of the Istanbul-Hilton Hotel, blankly glittering behind him on the heights of Pera. ↗

— Ian Fleming

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#istanbul #modernization #pera #turkey #beauty

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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#further #modernization #must #nuclear #nuclear weapons