OPINION

Rising fundamentalism threatens culture of tolerance

News, Imtiyaz Yusuf, Published on 01/12/2015

» In face of the global return of religion with political vengeance against the seculars and between religions, Peter Berger, the American sociologist of religion accepted the failure of his secularisation thesis. He recently remarked, "the assumption we live in a secularised world is false ... the world today is as furiously religious as it ever was".