A common response to social crises like the marijuana incident is to look more to what the local church should be than to whatever in fact it is. (religion-online.org)
(15) It is important to recognize that sociology arose as a distinct discipline in response to a specific social crisis. (religion-online.org)
Surely this is what fundamentalists do: they are too well organized and too successful to be simply the products of social crises. (religion-online.org)