Maybe, but that's not how I interpret it.
"........It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning ... that makes science and religion look like competitors today."
OK, this is wrong. Science hasn't claimed to have a monopoly of meaning.
The fundamentalist Christians since maybe the mid-1970s, on the other hand, have claimed exactly that and I've read their material and heard their sermons.
If you believe in evolution THEN you are damned to eternal hell, because IF you believe in evolution THEN you do not believe in God. Simple as that. Been in the pew, heard the preacher say it, wondered what the hell happened to people's brains. Trans-fats? Who knows?
My grandpa didn't believe like that and he was a Methodist preacher.
He was curious and intelligent and always hungered for knowledge. There was no 'competition' between science and religion in his mind.
It isn't science that's "forcing" people to choose.