Living in an Age of Comfort: Understanding Religion in the Twenty-first Century

Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2014 (166):9-24 (2014)
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In recent times the term “post-secular” has emerged to describe the age in which we are currently living. The term “post” is somewhat misleading because it is clear that the current age is strongly secular in a whole range of ways. Rather, post-secular is meant to indicate that the secularization metanarrative, the view that humanity is inevitably headed down a road that leads from a religious condition in the past to a secular age in the future, no longer holds.The post-secular certainly does not mean something like the “return of religion,” or an idea that the secular age is…

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