RIP …

… Professor David Martin (1929 – 2019) | Religion and Global Society. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 Forbidden Revolutions (1996) is a reappraisal of marginality. Contrary to much mainstream thinking, marginality does not lead necessarily to impotence and privatization. That may be so in Western Europe; further east, however, the overwhelming dominance of communism at the centre handed to Christianity the advantages of the margin, allowing it to become the carrier of an ‘alternative’ memory which, in the long run, proved the more enduring.