Europäische Säkularisierung — ein Sonderweg in die postsäkulare Gesellschaft?: Eine theoretische Anmerkung
Religion is a phenomenon which increases with the speeding up of communication in modern societies. The more these societies are secularized the more religious communication increases. This paradox is commented upon first in theoretical terms and taken as a challenge for macro-structural explanation...
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| Published in: | Berliner journal für Soziologie 2002-09, Vol.12 (3), p.331-343 |
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| Language: | ger |
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| Summary: | Religion is a phenomenon which increases with the speeding up of communication in modern societies. The more these societies are secularized the more religious communication increases. This paradox is commented upon first in theoretical terms and taken as a challenge for macro-structural explanations of modern societies. Increasing religious communication is then seen as reproduced -- beyond its traditional institutionalized forms -- through new institutional forms such as social movements (as evidenced in the research on new religious movements), the mobilization of religious difference (as evidenced in research on identity politics) and the mediatization of religious communication. From this theoretical point of view the description of Europe as a secular continent is theoretically too simple and empirically misleading. The thesis of an invisible religion in Europe has started to correct this description. The thesis of the "new visibility" goes further. Religion becomes -- against the assumption of further secularization -- a public phenomenon. A public space in Europe turns up in which religious communication competes with the republican and democratic self-understanding of a public sphere of communication, thus forcing a further cognitive decentering of modernity which affects equally religion and the rationality of public communication.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT] |
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| ISSN: | 0863-1808 1862-2593 |