Modernization seriously deteriorated religious tolerance in the Middle East

Evidence

The most obvious, most salient, and most powerful cause of the global religious resurgence is precisely what was supposed to cause the death of religion: the processes of social, economic, and cultural modernization that swept across the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Longstanding sources of identity and systems of authority are disrupted. People move from the countryside into the city, become separated from their roots, and take new jobs or no job. They interact with large numbers of strangers and are exposed to new sets of relationships. They need 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. Religion, both mainstream and fundamentalist, meets these needs. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 265 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modernization itself drives rather than kills religious revival — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 265; Ethnoreligious movements seriously challenge state hegemony throughout the Middle East.

Broader Connections

• Modernization itself drives rather than kills religious revival #complicates (0.85) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 265