Religious revival movements accept modernization while rejecting Westernization.

Evidence

The movements for religious revival are antisecular, antiuniversal, and, except in their Christian manifestations, anti-Western. They also are opposed to the relativism, egotism, and consumerism associated with what Bruce B. Lawrence has termed “modernism” as distinct from “modernity.” By and large they do not reject urbanization, industrialization, development, capitalism, science, and technology, and what these imply for the organization of society. In this sense, they are not antimodern. They accept modernization, as Lee Kuan Yew observes, and “the inevitability of science and technology and the change in the life-styles they bring,” but they are “unreceptive to the idea that they be Westernized.” — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 274

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes ‘modernity’ from ‘modernism’ and antimodern from anti-Western — a key conceptual distinction for the whole thesis.
• XREF: Connects to Lee Kuan Yew’s Asian values argument and to the broader debate on whether modernization implies Westernization.
• ADDENDUM: The tradition-adapts-while-rejecting-foreign-imposition dynamic parallels how dress systems signal identity rather than mere modesty in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’.