From that, the concepts of the ‘religious sacred’ and the ‘secular sacred’ were viewed to have ‘potential mutualities’ and should be studied as separate categories (Knott, 2013).
Within the sociological study of religion, scholars have recently studied the ‘sacred’ as a common factor within religions and non-negotiable secular values (Lynch, 2012 Knott, 2013). Also, there have been debates among scholars about how religious voices can co-exist with others given that public discussions tend to be based on rational arguments and religious discourses are inclined towards having their own coded vernacular (Taylor, 2011). Given that it is a space that is commonly assumed to be ‘secular’ or non-religious (Taylor, 2011), it may mean potential tension between the ‘secular’ and the ‘religious’, which may emerge within public discussions (Benson, 2010). The result lays important groundwork for scholarship on these new and increasingly important phenomena.ĭespite the prominent view that religion will eventually decrease in importance, an observation of the vibrancy of religion today has recently led Jürgen Habermas to acknowledge the need for its inclusion in the public sphere (2006). The contributions to this volume represent the first effort to look at ‘fundamentalisms’ and ‘the media’ together and address the resulting relations and interactions from critical perspectives of history, technology, geography, and practice. Across these contexts, no issue in religion is of as much concern as fundamentalism – or rather the fundamentalisms within various traditions – which are seen to be fomenting religious, social, ethnic, and political tension and conflict. Outside the West, religion is an ever more prominent force in social and political movements of both reform and retrenchment. Instead, the West has experienced what some call a ‘realignment’ of religion where it persists in conjunction with other institutions and structures. The turn of the twenty-first century has seen an ever-increasing profile for religion, contrary to long-standing predictions of its decline.
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