In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness..

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty an….

There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only in moments of silence, which….

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from ….

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with oth….

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period..

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency..

The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of ….

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in….

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and tran….

On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man….

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence..

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values….

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secula….

Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is ….

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of w….

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.

Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.