Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the
revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow
human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed
humans to their fundamental
human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in
response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».