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Podcast: Restitutio
Episode: 389 Why Christianity 2: Lay of the Land (Sean Finnegan)
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This is part 2 of the Why Christianity class.
It’s so easy to universalize our own local context. For example, I (Sean) live in a secular, post-Catholic part of New York state. It would be easy for me to think that most of the state or country or world is just like my area. However, this ethnocentric perspective will not do justice to the data we have about Christians in the world today. Sociologists have long held to the “secularization thesis”–the idea that world religions die out as s...