Prisoners of a Metaphor: Secularization as a Deicidal Epidemic

Abstract The article discusses the first reactions of many distinguished commentators to impact that CoViD-19 pandemic had on people’s religious life globally. Such across-the-board response is investigated against background Peter Sloterdijk’s exemplary reinterpretation vertical impulse in terms anthropotechnics and found defective. A more nuanced ambivalent account secularization offered end as a viable alternative standard thesis disenchantment world.