RT Article
T1 Hybrid Social Spaces and the Individualisation of Religious Experience in the Global North: Spatial Aspects of Religiosity in Postmodern Society
JF Religions
VO 15
IS 2
A1 Bognár, Bulcsu
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1881087247
AB This paper interprets the changing traits of religiosity in modern and postmodern societies from the perspective of spatial turn. The analysis examines the impact of social experience and action on spatial structure and how changes in spatial structure have influenced individual actions and experiences over the past decade, with a specific emphasis on the relationship to transcendence. The analysis explores the impact of the interaction of social spaces and actions on religiosity, in order to provide new insights into the interpretation of religious phenomena through a novel approach to the study of religion. It focuses on the consequences of individualisation, hybridisation, and globalisation, and analyses how these transformations are shaping contemporary religiosity in the global north. The paper argues that spatial structural changes are reinforcing more individualised forms of religiosity, often separated from traditional institutionalised religiosity. This gives greater scope to subject-organised ‘patchwork religiosity’, which inevitably reinforces a new kind of religious syncretism. The reflection unravels the spatial aspects of this transformation in a novel way.
K1 transcendental meaning-making
K1 Globalisation
K1 Individualisation
K1 hybrid social spaces
K1 sacred and secular spaces
K1 Religious Experience
K1 Religiosity
K1 Spatial Turn
DO 10.3390/rel15020241