Religions in a Global and Plural Society

The public return, the shift in the historical landscape, and the motivations behind religious peacebuilding

Abstract

The world keeps showing a rich variety of religious traditions, movements and communities: this situation would have amazed many of the observers which – all the way back since the modern turning point and particularly in the West – saw religion as an element condemned to gradually disappearing from the social agenda and from the public debate. The article here presented, enriched by a trans-disciplinary analytical method, aims to offer a first introductive study of the role that religions are assuming in our time. The goal is evaluating some crucial points that mark the impact of religions into the Society today.