Who Is Peter Burger

Peter Bürger is professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Bremen. He is the author of The Decline of Modernism and The Institutions of Art. … Bürger provides us with an expansive and compelling explanation of an immensely complicated phenomenon.

What did Peter Berger believe in?

He believed capitalism and democracy were intrinsically linked, as were socialism and authoritarianism. Dr. Berger also made major contributions to the field known as sociology of knowledge, which studies the ways in which society shapes human thought.

What is religion according to Berger?

He. describes it as “the ordinary everyday ‘life-world,’ the taken-for-granted world of. common sense,” “the reality that we apprehend when we are ‘wide-awake,’ when we go. about our various mundane projects” (Berger, 1974a: 129).