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“Christians Should Be Happy about Pluralism”

by Peter Berger

A recent study by the Pew Research Center, America’s Changing Religious Landscape, indicates a decline in the number of Americans who identify themselves with major organized churches. Does this decline make you uncomfortable? Were you correct when you advocated the theory of secularization, or when you renounced it?

Peter Berger

(1929-2017) Dr. Peter L. Berger was Director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University. He taught previously at the New School for Social Research, at Rutgers University, and at Boston College. Berger’s numerous books on sociological theory, the sociology of religion, and global development have been translated into dozens of foreign languages. Among his more recent books are Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience (1997); Modernity, Pluralism and the Crisis of Meaning (with Thomas Luckmann, 1995); The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions About Prosperity, Equality and Liberty (1988); and The War Over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground (with Brigitte Berger, 1983). In 1992, Berger was awarded the Manes Sperber Prize, presented by the Austrian government for significant contributions to culture.

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