Prof. Dr. Monika Wohlrab-Sahr [Professorin für Kultursoziologie am Institut für Kulturwissenschaften der Universität Leipzig]

Forschungsschwerpunkt und Graduiertenschule Gesellschaft und Kultur in Bewegung
Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien – Vorderer Orient, Afrika, Asien
Seminarraum
Forschungsschwerpunkt und Graduiertenschule
Gesellschaft und Kultur in Bewegung, ZIRS
Reichardtstr. 6
06114 Halle

For more than 15 years sociological debates over religion and secularization have been characterized by a confrontation between critics and defenders of secularization theories. At the same time, we have seen a dramatic rise in public debates about the place of secularism in political regimes and civilizational and national self-understandings across the world. Against this backdrop this paper presents elements for a theory of “multiple secularities” by addressing different structures of cultural meaning associated with the distinctions and entanglements between religion and other social spheres.