Summary: The Twenty-One Trends are Changing the Global Ecosystem of Religion. Will the Outcome be a Rather Retro- or Post-Religion: A More Fragmented or More Universal “Structured Spirituality”?

Abstract

Together, and in their (widely unsystematic) interplay, the twenty-one trends seem to be currently contributing to both redefine the traditional self-concept of “religion” as practiced in post-neoliberal globalization, and to refine crucial approaches of contextual politics which, not least because of these trends, are increasingly becoming an important branch of global politics at the expense of traditional party and institutional politics, partly providing ideology in new (albeit in the end old) religious attire.