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.

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization

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.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

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

Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.