Religion in the 21st Century

In spite of the debate about secularization or de-secularization, the existential-bodily need for religion is basically the same as always. What have been changed are the horizons within which religions are interpreted and the relationships within which religions are integrated. This book explores how religions continue to challenge secular democracy and science, and how religions are themselves being challenged by secular values and practices. All traditions - whether religious or secular - experience a struggle over authority, and this struggle seems to intensify with globalisation, as it has brought people around the world in closer contact with each other. In this book internationally leading scholars from sociology, law, political science, religious studies, theology and the religion and science debate, take stock of the current interdisciplinary research on religion and open new perspectives at the cutting edge of the debate on religion in the 21st century.

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Lisbet Christoffersen is Associate Professor of Public Law at the University of Roskilde, and an Adjunct Professor of Law and Religion at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Hans Raun Iversen is Associate Professor for Practical Theology at the University of Copenhagen; Hanne Petersen is Professor of Law in Greenland and is part of the management group for a new Centre for the Studies of Legal Culture at the University of Copenhagen; Margit Warburg is a Sociologist of Religion and Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Foreword; Preface; Introduction, Hanne Petersen; Part 1 Challenges: Political and Intellectual Challenge: Religion challenging the myth of secular democracy, Jose Casanova; 'Fundamentalism' and the pluralisation of value-orientations, Peter Beyer; Intellectual challenges from religion, Sven-Eric Liedman; Political and intellectual challenges; a sociological response, Grace Davie; Political and intellectual challenges: a theological response, Niels Henrik Gregersen. The Religion and Science Debate: Challenges in the 21st century: religion and science, Philip Clayton; Religions and the natural sciences: appeals to science as religious advocacy?, Willem B. Drees; The need of real doubt in religion and science, Jesper Hoffmeyer.; Part 2 Transformations: Islam and State Politics: 'Systematically closed, cognitively open?' A critical analysis of transformative processes in Islamic law and Muslim state practices, Shaheen Sardar Ali; Law and religion in Europe, Silvio Ferrari; Clashes and encounters: challenges in Nordic legal cultures related to law and religion, Kjell A. Modeer. Secularism and State Politics: Republicization of religion in France, Sebastien Tank-Storper; The meaning of privatization and de-privatization, Martin Riesebrodt. Denmark and the Cartoons: The settled secularity of happy Denmark, David Martin; Background of the cartoon crises in Danish mentality, Hans Raun Iversen; The politics of Lutheran secularism: reiterating secularism in the wake of the cartoon crises, Anders Berg-Sorensen; Globalisation and religious diasporas: a reassessment in the light of the cartoon crises, Margit Warburg; Index.

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