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The Other Side of Globalization

Religion has returned as a political and cultural factor. After the political ideologies, whose secular and worldly promises of salvation had influenced the history of the 20th century in such a radical manner, had been (for the time being, at least) invalidated, the reappearance of religion on a global level cannot be overlooked: As a focal power as to how to conduct one’s life, as a guarantor of cultural identity, and as religious-political creativity. We cannot understand the current state of the world, its crises, conflicts and wars, but also the self-perception and self-awareness of non-European cultures and peoples anymore, if we do not also realise religion as a “power of life” (Max Weber: “Lebensmacht”) has returned. In addition to sketching this process, this essay raises the question: what are the cultural and political challenges which especially the secular societies of the West are to face?

globalisation; religion; religion and politics; fundamentalism; culture; clash of civilisations; secularisation; Europe and Islam; values

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