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Discuss the factors leading to growing religious revivalism in the contemporary world.

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  • Religion and Society

Religious revivalism means a renewed commitment to faith, ritual and religious identity within established traditions. Classical theorists from Auguste Comte to Max Weber expected modernity to "disenchant" the world. Its visible reversal since the 1970s, which Gilles Kepel called The Revenge of God (1991), has causes that are social rather than purely spiritual.

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  • 1. Disillusionment with secular modernisation
  • 2. Existential insecurity and demography
  • 3. Globalisation and the search for identity
  • 4. Migration and diaspora
  • 5. Deprivation and the religious market
  • 6. Media and technology
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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