DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, FACULTY OF ARTS, CONSTANTINE THE PHILOSOPHER UNIVERSITY IN NITRA

The purpose of this study is to explore how the social role of religion is re-defined in Second Modernity. More specifically, it analyzes the way the religious systems function and ‘glocally’ interact with other social institutions in risk societies (Beck) of a runaway world (Giddens) in times of ambiguity (Bauman). Based on the theoretical approach of reflexive modernization, the analysis focuses on the conditions under which the religious discourse could be incorporated into a “cosmopolitan form of statehood”. In this regard, the analysis brings into the fore the question whether religions could contribute to the cosmopolitan vision of peace promoting the universal respect of human dignity, or they carry a collusive burden that leads irreversibly mankind to controversy.Social theory, Religion, Second Modernity, World Risk Society, Cosmopolitanism, Beck, International Relations, Refugees

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