Privatisation or Publicising of Religion in the Modern World
Privatisation or Publicising of Religion in the Modern World

Summary/Abstract: Abstract: The aim of the paper is to show religion in the process of transformation. The main processes shaping religion and religious systems will be analysed: secularisation, privatisation, deprivatisation and religious fundamentalism. The processes of secularisation mean that various areas of political and social life become independent from the influence of religion. The process of privatisation of religion seems to contradict the thesis of progressing secularisation. Institutionalised religiousness is substituted with one that is private in its nature. Such privatised religion is treated as dominant in the world of today. An increasing number of people search for their own place outside the acknowledged, traditional religious organisations. The process of deprivatisation of religion takes three main forms: the increase in religious mobilisation to protect the traditional everyday world, religion entering the public sphere of modern societies, propagation of the rule of common good, as opposed to individualism proclaimed by liberal theories. Religious fundamentalism and integrism oppose the secular state and liberal democracy.

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