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Peter L. Berger
1929 – 2017 • Austrian • Sociologist
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Collected Meditations
Showing 22 quotesWhen certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.— Peter L. Berger
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.— Peter L. Berger
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved.— Peter L. Berger
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.— Peter L. Berger