Postsecularism

Postsecularism refers to a number of theories concerning the persistence and resurgence of religion in the present.

The Science Recorder declared in 2015:

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Science and religion are often presented as opposing world views, but a recent study in the American Sociological Review published Jan. 29, suggests that for some Americans, this binary construction (i.e. science vs. religion) is a false dichotomy. Authors Timothy O’Brien, an assistant professor at the University of Evansville and co-author Shiri Noy, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wyoming, call these Americans the “Post-Seculars,” and were surprised to find that one in five Americans belongs to this group, a sizable number given that most of these individuals have gone “unnoticed before in endless rounds of debates pitting” science against religion. According to O’Brien, “[The Post-Seculars] are pretty knowledgeable and appreciative about science and technology but…are also very religions and reject certain scientific theories.”

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For more information, please see: List of atheist and agnostic pseudosciences

See also

• Desecularization

• Atheism vs. Christianity

• Atheism vs. Islam

• Christianity and science

• Richard Dawkins and pseudoscience

Recommended books

• The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics by Peter L. Berger, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (143p), 1999, ISBN 978-0-8028-4691-4

• Religion and the State in Russia and China: Suppression, Survival, and Revival by Christopher Marsh, 2011, ISBN 13: 9781441112477

External links

• A number of academic journals now indicate that global atheism/agnosticism is shrinking in influence
• Global resurgence of religion and the failure of the secularization theory model
• 4 reasons why atheism and agnosticism are weak, errant, secular religions