Religion in the Age of Re-Globalization

Roland Benedikter is Co-Head of the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy; Research Professor of Multidisciplinary Political Analysis in residence at the Willy Brandt Centre at Wroclaw University, Poland; and Member of the Future Circle of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for the German Federal Government.

• Overview: A “loss-of-control” age?.- Introduction: Transfiguring the ground. Religion in our days: Between return, revival and renewal.- A shifting global scenery: The age of re-globalization.- Re-globalization: An array of factors shaking the fundamentals of neoliberal globalization.- Religious re-globalization rhetoric from the United Nations.- The changing European-Western setting: Post-postmodernity and meta-modernity as carriers of a renaissance of values towards “everyday spirituality”?.