Facing up to Modernity

264 Pages·1979·38.086 MB·English

by  Peter L. Berger

Digitized by the Internet Archive
2012
in
http://archive.org/details/facinguptomoderOOberg

Facing Up Modernity
to

UP TO
FACING
MODERNITY
Excursions in Society,
Politics, and Religion
PETER BERGER
L.
'Basic 'Books, Inc., Tublishers New York
LibraryofCongressCatalogingin Publication Data
Berger, PeterL.
Facinguptomodernity.
Includesbibliographical referencesand index.
— —
1. Sociology UnitedStates Addresses,essays,
lectures. 2. Political sociology. 3. Religionand
—
sociology Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Title.
HM22.U5B39 301 77-74572
ISBN: 0-465-02269-3
©
Copyright 1977 by PeterL. Berger
Printed in theUnitedStatesofAmerica
109 87 65432
1
..
Contents
PREFACE Vll
Introduction: SociologyandFreedom x
I
Understanding Modernity
1 Marriageandthe Construction ofReality 5
(with hansfried kellner)
2. Towarda Sociological Understanding of
Psychoanalysis 23
3. The Blueing ofAmerica 35
(with brigitte berger)
4. TheAssaulton Class 43
(with brigitte berger)
5. TheSocialist Myth 56
6. Towarda CritiqueofModernity 70
II
Acting in Modern America
7. Languages ofMurder 83
8 The GreeningofAmerican Foreign Policy 95
9. Intellectual Conservatism: Two Paradoxes 107
10. Reflectionson Patriotism 1 18
11. In PraiseofParticularity: The Concept ofMediating
Structures 130
. 1
vi Contents
III
Transcending Modernity
12. Prologue: Bestrangement in Stockholm 145
13. Religion in a Revolutionary Society 148
14. A Sociological Viewofthe
Secularization ofTheology 162
15. A CallforAuthority in the Christian Community 182
16. Cakesforthe Queen ofHeaven: 2,500 Years of
ReligiousEcstasy 195
17 The Devilandthe Pornography ofthe Modern Mind 207
18. New York City 1976: A SignalofTranscendence 21
NOTES 221
INDEX 225