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Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.
Peter L. Berger
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If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.
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So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.
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One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.
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The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
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Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
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The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
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Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
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The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
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Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.
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If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.
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Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
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We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.
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In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
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