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Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society
; 7(2):376-397, 2021.
Article
in English
| Web of Science | ID: covidwho-1614519
ABSTRACT
The article discusses the first reactions of many distinguished commentators to the impact that the CoViD-19 pandemic had on people's religious life globally. Such acrossthe-board response is investigated against the background of Peter Sloterdijk's exemplary reinterpretation of the religious vertical impulse in terms of anthropotechnics and is found defective. A more nuanced and ambivalent account of secularization is offered in the end as a viable alternative to the standard thesis of the disenchantment of the world.