ABSTRACT
Max Weber and other modernization theorists have argued that the pursuit of modern science and technology would lead to a decline in religion, which was associated with traditionalism, spiritualism, magic, superstition, and other-worldliness (Rostow 1971; Black 1975; Bentley 2003: 8-11). These theorists believed that Western nations came to dominate the world because they adopted science and technology and dispensed with religion as an organizing narrative. They thought that the rest of the world could only be modern if they too followed the same path.
