Reflection Paper: Women and Religion

The paper reflects that the basic element in the theories on the modernization of society is the idea of continual changes in all spheres of social life. However, changes in the various domains of life not necessarily occur simultaneously, in the same direction, in the same magnitude or sequence. The occurrence of (partly) independent changes is explained by the process of differentiation. All theories of modernization regard this as a core process of social change. Differentiation refers to the "ways through which the main social functions or major institutional spheres of society become differentiated from one another, ...