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
Peter L. BergerTo be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.
Peter L. BergerOn the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man experiences himself as an entity that is not identical with his body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man's experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again.
Peter L. BergerThe 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
Peter L. Berger