RELIGION, TYPOLOGIES OF REACTION TO MODERNITY:
in practice religious reactions to
MODERNITY often take the FORM of generating new TRADITIONS and/or new insights into old
traditions; an accommodation to the new which maintains an organic connection to some
older tradition; attempts to reject the new and preserve the old or what is seen as
ancient traditions; a strident re-assertion of the old or traditional BELIEFS and
practices in a new condensed, "purified" or REDUCTIONIST form; the creation of
GROUPS which self-consciously celebrate the modern and denigrate tradition and old ways or
beliefs; and, finally, the sponsorship and supervision by the State of CULTS celebrating
the State's legitimacy.
