Abstract
Summary Four topical aspects of contemporary religious life are examined here Our purpose is to ascertain whether or not they contain the seeds for a public reappearance of religion. These four aspects are the following: - the role played by the churches in the overthrow of state communism in some of the former iron-curtain countries; - New Age and its ‘new religiosity’; - the new charismatic movements amongst the Christians; - the growing influence of fundamentalism. These movements are tested according to the following working hypothesis with respect to a possible reappearance of religion: the reappearance must be of such a nature that it manifests a marked reappreciation (in thought and in social practice) of the religious dimension as being a constitutive factor of our humanity. That means that, as criteria for judging whether or not we are witnessing the reappearance of religion, the religious dimension must be seen as essential for the integral development of the person on the one hand, and there mu...
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