Retheorizing the Postsecular Present: Embodiment, Spatial Transcendence, and Challenges to Authenticity Among Young Christians in Glasgow, Scotland

Post-secular rapprochement in peripheralized regions – politics of withdrawal and parish community responses

“…This has been fostered by contributions on "the post-secular" that rely on decontextualizing narratives (see, e.g., Eder, 2002). There are, however, a number of studies that address post-secularity as an empirical phenomenon related to changing relations of religion within a secular society (e.g., Olson et al, 2013Olson et al, :1424. Lancione (2014:3063) identifies different strands of research in geography, highlighting that one of them -in line with a statement by Olson et al (2013Olson et al ( :1424 about it being the key focus for geographers -is concerned with incidents of crossing the boundaries between secular and religious orientation in the public arena.…”

“…Despite these efforts, some scholars note that assumptions about religion coming back from an alleged former public marginality may have been rather misleading (e.g., Olson et al, 2013Olson et al, :1422. Others are opposed to the notion that something "new" emerges and stress that "while much of the earlier geographical research on religion (.…”

“…There are, however, a number of studies that address post-secularity as an empirical phenomenon related to changing relations of religion within a secular society (e.g., Olson et al, 2013Olson et al, :1424. Lancione (2014:3063) identifies different strands of research in geography, highlighting that one of them -in line with a statement by Olson et al (2013Olson et al ( :1424 about it being the key focus for geographers -is concerned with incidents of crossing the boundaries between secular and religious orientation in the public arena. Often based on examples from the UK and USA (but also in Turkey; see Gökariksel and Secor, 2015), such "new forms of partnership between the religious and the secular" (Cloke et al, 2016:498) have been termed post-secular rapprochement (see .…”

“…Furthermore, a variety of understandings of post-secular, post-secularity, post-secularism has surfaced, resulting in a multifaceted and shifting meaning of the terms. Olson et al (2013Olson et al ( :1422 claim that "postsecularization refers to the reemergence of religion in the public sphere, whereas postsecularism is associated with a normative position regarding the involvement of religious people, organizations, and ethics in public life." Consequently, Olson et al devote themselves to postsecular theory as "a set of diverse scholarship that shares an interest in the development of a rigorous critique of theories of secularization" (Olson et al, 2013(Olson et al, :1422.…”

“…Less a homogeneous phenomenon, theses spaces are understood as specific, heterogeneous incidents of cooperation. Consequently, conceptualizations set off inductively from empirical observations: forms of rapprochement emerge from collaboration between social groups with different religious and secular orientation (see Olson et al, 2013Olson et al, :1424. However, this is not to plea for empirical eclecticism but to develop "a more wholesale reorientation of the sacred and secular in the public sphere" (Cloke, 2011:486).…”