Individual Globalism: A New Religious Culture of Advanced Industrial Societies

II. New Policies for Religious Actors in the Context of Globalization
By Raphaël Liogier
English

Behind the seemingly chaotic multiplication of religious groups in post-industrial societies, it is possible to discern an orthodoxy that oscillates between the search for oneself and openness to all. This constitutes a form of individual globalism that is accompanied by a mysticism expressed at times in quasi-scientific language and at others in a neo-traditional discourse and that is based on the cult of energy, a paradoxical substance that is both natural and supernatural, personal and impersonal: in short, it is both individual and global. This orthodoxy, which is the ideology of faith-based NGOs as well as the regulating culture of the global religious space, is today spilling over strictly religious borders and into health, sport, tourism, food, economics, and politics.

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