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Abstract
Since September 11 attacks on World Trade Center, the word "postsecularism" became a kind of key to explain the existing tension between the secular and "indifferent toward religion" Western world, and the growing religious fundamentalism. However, the existence of conflict between secular and religious worldviews and the attempts to overcome it are not new. The aim of my paper is to present a few examples of successful endeavors of worldviews exchanges between believers and nonbelievers. But, first, a definition of postsecularism will be suggested together with some critical reflection on the concept of religion. I will also discuss some inspiring ideas and theories of postsecularism from the last decade. I would like to suggest a comprehension of postsecularism as a kind of pluralism.

"Exploring the viability of new perspectives on secularisation and the idea of postsecularism, this book reflects on their relevance when considered in the context of different societies within and outside the West"--

This article examines the situation of religion in the context of contemporary neoliberalism. I argue that neoliberalism is a symptom of a fatal crisis in modern liberalism, which is brought about by geophysical planetary limits to growth. The concept of religion is a modern one that emerges from a secularized Christianity, and as liberalism declines, religion as a category is also declining. This phenomenon can be analyzed in terms of what I call postsecularism. Postsecularism indicates the breakdown of the modern divide within liberalism that assigns religion to a private sphere of belief that is separate from political-civil reason. Postsecularism attends to the ways that what we call religion exceed their modern frames and become deprivatized and politicized. In this process, spiritual-political forces are liberated from the modern framework of religion. Recent movements called New Materialism and New Animism can be seen as attempts to conceptualize this development. Finally, as an example, I turn to a recent book by Elizabeth Povinelli called Geontopower to show how religion fails to capture a profound entanglement of spiritual and political phenomena in neoliberalism, or what she calls late liberalism.

The sense of hopelessness vis-à-vis the anthropocentric paradigm makes it difficult today to think about the future of the planet and reinforces pessimism and resignation. This is also true of the eco-critically inflected humanities; they highlight the need for an awareness-raising transformation that could limit the extent of the expected climate catastrophe. At this point, they must be supported by tools capable of changing reality. Such tools must meet the social needs of wholeness, meaning, and spirituality and remain open to non-Western models of religiosity. It is especially worth looking for them in post-secular thinking, which combines a reasoned and an intuitive way of understanding reality.

Introduction: Emerging from multiple rifts -- Post-secularity and (global) politics : a need for redefinition -- Post-secular faith : toward a religion of service -- A secular age? Reflections on Taylor and Panikkar -- "Man against the state" : self-interest and civil resistance -- Neo-liberalism and its critics : voices from East and West -- Individualized life : the plight of narcissism -- Holism and particularism : Panikkar on human rights -- Falling upward communally : a tribute to Richard Rohr.