Similarly, one may argue for the importance of economic resources to any episode of religious change but acknowledge that these resources may be constrained by organizational arrangements specific to particular societies. (religion-online.org)
Rather than depicting religious change as a simple decline in the importance of religion, these theories emphasize qualitative changes in the character of religion. (religion-online.org)
The ideas of evolution and historical development in the distant past were barely accepted, before the current process of cultural and religious change gained momentum. (religion-online.org)