Religious America? Secular Europe? by Peter Berger, David Grace and Effie Fokas

Religion has always been an important aspect of world civilization, but its role and importance in the human life of the world are different. As a direct result of globalization, people continue to ask about the role of religion in the modern world and the general assertion that Europeans are less religious than Americans. Some people have come to the conclusion that Americans are very likely to exaggerate their religious beliefs, while Europeans do not appreciate their secularity.

Peter Burger believed for a long time that researchers who support secularization believed that religion inevitably faded in the modern world, but today, most of the world has faith as they had in the past There. This shows the wrong point of secularization theory. On the other hand, Berger also pointed out that Europe might have achieved secularization, while America and other regions continue to maintain religious beliefs despite the increase in the level of modernization. Dr. Berger suggested that the reason may be related to the educational system; in Europe, teachers are dispatched from educational authorities, European parents have to endure secular teachings. They can dismiss the teacher. . Berg also pointed out that unlike in Europe, the United States is seeing evangelical Protestantism, the emergence of 'Christian reincarnation'. : 78

Latin America has become a shopping center for religious choice! As Peterberg observes, secularization has led to demonization of religious traditions, leading to pluralism. This in turn leads to a "market situation", among which "the religious tradition that would have been formally applied must now be put on the market." If Christians do not take this aspect of today's religious background seriously, Christianity has no future in Latin America. The end of the Constantine era marked "Death of Christianity" is the starting point for understanding the growth of evangelicals in Latin America and the role of the evangelical church at the beginning of the third century.