... upon the "Dark Ages" Mankind became entrenched with the notion that reason and logic were virtually untouchable upon the pedestal upon which they had been set, that thios notion has become the driving force of our societies virtually in every aspect of it: intellectual, social, and political. (Kumar,1990). However, Although Man has reaped great benefits from modernity, "the comprehensive designation of all changes, intellectual, social and political, that bought into being the modern world (Kumar, 1990), with exponentially increased living standards being an obvious example, not everyone blindly accepted this New Era. Indeed, the first people to voice their concerns over the nature and the effects of modernity were, not surprisingly a group of people who were less constrained by the omnipotent laws of reason and science, as say Emile Durkheim, who at the time was formulating his theory on suicides by using very scientific methods of research. This group is, ...

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