RELIGION AND MODERNITY:
several religious reactions to modernity exist. The most
important are the development of a dichotomous view of the world which separates the
SACRED from the SECULAR; the veneration and support of what is supposed to be a HISTORIC
or authentic TRADITION which is often identified with religious ORTHODOXY; a MILLENARIAN
or APOCALYPTIC response which sees the modern age as doomed and looks for SALVATION to the
direct intervention of GOD or GODS in the affairs of the world; the identification of the
modern, or ideas taken to be modern, with religion and the claim that modern values
represent the essence of religious values.
