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with social services and public policies that the strongest claims have been made for the view
with social services and public policies that the strongest claims have been made for the view
that postsecular conditions have raised the public profile of religion.<ref>[http://www.academia.edu/1785171/Public_religions_and_the_post-secular_critical_reflections Postsecular - James A. Beckford in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick]</ref>}}
that postsecular conditions have raised the public profile of religion.<ref>[http://www.academia.edu/1785171/Public_religions_and_the_post-secular_critical_reflections Postsecular - James A. Beckford in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick]</ref>}}
== Causes of the global resurgence of religion and the failure of secularism ==
Citing the work of the French researcher Gilles Kepel who wrote the book ''The Revenge of God'' and the work [[Harvard University]]'s political scientist Samuel Huntington who wrote the work ''The Clash of Civilizations'', the Christian ministry Tomorrow's World wrote:
{{cquote|Growing numbers of people around the globe are becoming disenchanted with the effect of secularism on our modern world—the fragmentation of society, the weakening of social cohesion, the absence of noble ideals worth pursuing, the lack of solid values, the social acceptance of what was formerly considered perversion, the spread of crime and the lack of effective punishment, the emptiness of consumerism and materialism, the breakdown of the "welfare state," the failure of communism, the chaos in schools and the breakdown of families (Kepel, p. 5).
Once-formidable ideologies have been found unsatisfactory and have even collapsed. Millions are abandoning the depressing philosophical wasteland of theories that consider human beings mere animals with no future beyond death, and no purpose in life other than to survive. In place of [[communism]] and consumerism, many are searching for "new sources of identity, new forms of stable community, and new sets of moral precepts to provide them with a sense of meaning and purpose… there is a quest for some higher explanations about man's purpose, about why we are here" (''The Clash of Civilizations'', p. 97).<ref>[http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/magazines/2005/nov-dec/the-return-of-religion The Return of Religion - Tomorrow's World]</ref>}}
== Future of desecularization via the continued global resurgence of religion ==
== Future of desecularization via the continued global resurgence of religion ==