ZYGO Zygon® 0591-2385 1467-9744 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2005.00667.x WHOM TO BLAME FOR THE CHARGE OF SECULARIZATION? Oviedo Lluís 02 06 2005 40 2 10.1111/zygo.2005.40.issue-2 351 362

Abstract. In the last century science and technology have been viewed as guilty of contributing to the modern secularization process and also to a crisis in religion. The extent of this influence is less clear today: while technology is stronger, and an easy target for any kind of social and cultural criticism, science seems weaker than it used to. The aim of this commentary is to examine in a critical way the arguments for and against scientific and technological involvement in the crisis religion faces today. In the end, a revision of the future of religion is called into question, especially in the light of a more “technological theology.”

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