Abstract: In this paper I will try to briefly present contemporary thoughts and critics about the state of secularism and the secularization process, in post modern societies and more specific from what contemporary sociological research, mentions about these matters. In our days, religion and its institutions may seem to lose the monopoly of legalization of values (Kotsiopoulos, 2020), within the context of a variety of social ethics. This doesn't mean that the post modern societies should violently stop the dialogue with religious institutions and religious communities, especially when ethic, political and social crises are often into rise. After all, in post modern "risk societies" (Beck, 1986), clashes and crises are crucial facts of everyday life, with a normalization tendency and with an increasing need of societies to refer to something beyond the secular theoretical despair which seems to be imposed by militant secularists.
Keywords secularism, religion, social theory, laicité, post modern society, post-secularism, multiple modernity, multiple secularism, sociology of religion
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