Religion in Modern Society

Abstract

Religion has long gone through a history of relatively complicated changes, adaptations and existence in social life. Since a few centuries ago, given the decline of faith and the rejection of religious practice occurring in Western Europe, many scholars have relied on secularization to explain the religious decline which is caused by an increasingly industrialized society and rational spiritual growth. However, to this day, religion seems to have an indispensable role despite the ever-expanding process of industrialization and the increasing level of rationality worldwide. While there is no denying the growing secularization trend in the world social life, one must also admit that religion also moves and adapts quite quickly to changes and remains a kind of spiritual power, which covers the function of problem-solving in modern society while cannot be handled by technology, science or politics and economics.