Science and secularisation

科学与世俗化该项目将探讨科学在西方的发展以及它与宗教影响力下降的关系。 具体来说，它将调查科学是否是世俗化的主要原因，以及在大多数西方国家观察到的科学进步和相应的宗教衰落的模式是否是普遍的。该项目旨在解决一个关于宗教、科学和现代化之间关系的重大未决问题。它还旨在阐明全球安全的一个关键问题，即现代化是否会无情地导致世俗的自由民主国家，或者是否有可能出现技术先进但本质上宗教的新形式国家。

Science and secularisation. This project will explore the growth of science in the West and how it relates to a decline in the influence of religion. Specifically, it will investigate whether science has been a major cause of secularisation, and whether the pattern of scientific advance and corresponding religious decline observed in most Western countries is a universal one. This project aims to address a major unresolved issue concerning the relations between religion, science and modernisation. It also aims to shed light on a crucial issue for global security, namely, whether modernisation leads inexorably to secular, liberal democratic states, or whether new forms of technologically advanced, yet intrinsically religious states are possible.