Is religion coping? There were many controversial debates on God and religious faith at the World Congress of Sociology in Durban last week. Tony Carnie reports.(News)

From: The Mercury (South Africa) | Date: July 31, 2006 | Copyright information

IS religion and church-going doomed to a slow, inexorable death as the forces of modernism sweep across the face of the human world?

Can Marxism, socialism and religion be fused together to achieve "salvation" in today's human world, rather than waiting until the hereafter?

And then, perhaps some of the biggest questions of them all: Does God really exist? Has religion been a force for good or for the worse during human history? And how is religion changing its shape to cope with a rapidly transformed globalised world?

These were just a few of the controversial and ...

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