The changes are of many different kinds. In the religious realm, the role of the Lutheran folk church that formerly was very influential in many parts of society has changed. The differentiation of society in Modernity diminished the immediate significance of religion outside a narrow religious sphere. Today one can see an increasing interest in religion but this does not mean a return to the r...

Some researchers based on the distinction theory, believe that religious influence on other spheres of social life reduce and in spite of traditional life spheres lead by a set of its values, not by a coherent unit and driven by fragmentation theory of values.  The effect of religion on public life and private areas such as work and family over the area of public policy is effective. The relat...

This article explores how two seemingly contradictory global trends—scientific rationality and religious expressiveness—intersect are negotiated in people’s lives Nordic countries. We focus on Finland Sweden, both countries with reputations of being highly secular modernized welfare states. The draws our multi-sited ethnography including interviews health practitioners, academics, students iden...

The need to re-examine established ways of thinking about secularism and its relationship to feminism has arisen in the context of the confluence of a number of developments including: the increasing dominance of the ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis; the expansion of postmodern critiques of Enlightenment rationality to encompass questions of religion; and sustained critiques of the ‘secularizati...

Abstract This special issue probes the ways in which religion and marketing hybrids are flourishing digital age. The powerful partnership of magnetically attracts consumers to products both secular sacred. Popular media have increasingly noticed this phenomenon, but it warrants more serious concerted attention from academy. Our article contributors consequently explore religio-cultural implicat...

Habermas on genealogy, metaphysics and religion Habermas’s impressive history of philosophy presents itself both as a comprehensive account the Western from its beginning to 19th century genealogy post-metaphysical thinking. In this paper I argue that twofold goal creates serious methodological problem. also find understanding unclear partly misguided. If is correct it has consequences not only...