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I have not read the book, but culling a little from what is available, perhaps one can put forth one's thoughts over the issue.
Primarily, how would one define God? Secondly, how would one, then - an important then - define religion?
How would one define modernity? In our answers to such questions, we have our answers, including our self-definitions.
To my mind there exists no contradiction between the acceptance of the supernatural and the acceptance of modernity. In my limited comprehension, modernity should infact help one better in one's 'quest' - an important aspect in how that gets defined in our defining the first two/three questions - for the universe (if that word be adequate to represent one's objective for a 'quest' after one determines more or less what that is or would be}. Or even answers to certain fundamental queries or mere wonderings.
In our answers to those questions, we set for ourselves our own realities and worlds.
Tragedies usually happen when we tend to enforce our realities upon others! Perhaps the greater one's comprehension is of the above questions - in the answers that one provides or attempts to provide for them (even as we thus then define ourselves - even in mimickry) - the better it is for democracy to emerge as a natural condition.
So perhaps, the idea of an entrepreneurial model merely defines particular limitations that has a bearing upon democracy as well. Since for democracy to be really successful, it would also need that basic education and recognition - of the rights and privileges of oneself as well as that of the another person. And respecting those. As long as one recognizes the basic condition that the another person enjoys an equal right as oneself - respecting that immediately becomes an attendant duty or a natural corollary. Rights & Duties are thus inseparable.
To my comprehension, neither an adequate comprehension of the questions dealing with God and/or religion (since ideologies too breed the same outputs in their varieties) nor that of modernity would mean any problem in joyful co-habitation. I would really welcome a healthy child from such a co-habitation. Though one needs to add that socialism as seen and understood in many parts of the world or even communism barely springs to one's mind. Democracy that respects individual freedom does spring up as a natural condition. How rich or how poor or how thick or how thin? Well!?