Thinker

Peter Berger

Peter Berger is central to 19 previous-year questions, spanning 2009 to 2025 across Paper I and Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.

19Questions
200925Years tested
I & IIPaper
3Syllabus topics

Concepts asked alongside Peter Berger

What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.

secularisation 6fundamentalism 5disenchantment 4rationalisation 4religious revivalism 4sociological imagination 4common sense 3conflict and complementarity 3desecularisation 3differentiation 3identity politics 3scientific method 3secularization thesis 3critical enquiry 2desecularization 2privatisation of religion 2religious pluralism 2revivalism 2

Where Peter Berger appears in the syllabus

  • 8. Religion and Society13
  • 1. Sociology — The Discipline4
  • Politics and Society (India)2

Every question on Peter Berger

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