Religion In The 20th Century

Religion has accompanied humankind throughout its history. It is also present in all nations and has maintained a close relationship with all cultures for a long time. As several specialized publications report, all religions have expressed themselves through the own human genius, the specific conditions and circumstances of each nation and the idea that every man is inhabited by a soul and he cannot exist by himself, i.e., counting only on its own resources. Historical and cultural variants of different human groups explain the plurality and variety of religions (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, among others). However, a common characteristic of them all is the presence on human beings of something beyond the horizon of their own beings, their projects and their works. All together, these different religions constitute what is known as the religious fact, considered by all religions as an integral part of the human phenomenon and

According to several specialized publications, there are some finding demonstrating that the modernization process that is taken place all around the world, is generating a progressive secularization within societies. Therefore, some secularization experts predicted that religion had numbered days and they even proposed a fixed date for its disappearance. However, while it is true that the secularization process has imposed major changes and caused a serious crisis in the established religions (particularly in Europe), such foretelling has not been met. Furthermore, the secularization process has also led to some interesting reactions, for example, the proliferation of new religious movements, the revitalization of some religious traditions of the past and the establishment of others in a more or less peaceful coexistence with