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June 19, 2015

The Resurgence of Religion Is No Mystery

Michael Walzer's paradox is anything but.

In The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions, Michael Walzer compares three countries—Algeria, India, and Israel—that gained their independence from European rule thanks to secular revolutionary movements and are now experiencing a resurgence of religion. In his review, Peter Berger suggests that there is nothing paradoxical about Walzer's “paradox”:

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