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This chapter studies how people deal with loss of meaning due to a key process of modernization – that of secularization. Will people increasingly tend to oppose this major trend in Western societies? After putting forward some expectations in the next section, and explaining the data and measures in the third section, we will show how religious people respond to the growing pressures of the process of secularization around them in the fourth section. In the final section we will discuss the wider relevance of these results for immigrants' responses to some of the ill effects of modernity. The process of modernization can increasingly render people to feel lost, insecure and without a clear idea of meaning and identity. In addition, people will oppose these ill effects of modernization. In such a case they will start a renewed search for commonly shared fundamental values which combat the consequences of modernity.
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