The Post-Secular in Question
The Post-Secular in Question
This book explores the question of whether we are living in a post-secular world by focusing on the state of religiosity in the world and religion's place in the social sciences and beyond. In the context of claims about religious resurgence, this book examines the legacies of secularism and secularization theory, the contested categories of religion and the secular, and the diverse claims associated with the concept of the post-secular. This introductory chapter provides an overview of the shifting patterns of scholarly attention to religion, along with the link between the religious and the secular. It also discusses the history of philosophical and social scientific understandings of religion and disciplinary differences in the study of religion. Finally, it looks at the future prospects for the social scientific study of religion.
Keywords: post-secular, religiosity, social sciences, religion, religious resurgence, secularism, secularization
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