After ten years of writing in other areas, Peter L. Berger returns to the problem of religion and modernity dis-cussed in his earlier book A RUMOR OF ANGELS. In THE HERETICAL IMPERATIVE, however, not only is the argu-ment developed further in terms of the challenge to re-ligion of modern secularism, but it is also argued that a new and greatly promising encounter is about to take place between the Judaeo-Christian tradition and the great religions of Asia. Berger discusses the options for re-ligious thought in the contemporary world and suggests that out of the confrontation between different traditions may come a powerful revitalization of religious faith.