Author: Patrick Laude (Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar)

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ABSTRACT

This essay proposes a theoretical reading of contemporary religious phenomena through the two concepts of "ideologization” and “psychologization.” It situates contemporary religious trends within the context of a new “global” culture and analyzes some of the ways in which they break away from traditional concepts of religion while blurring the lines between the religious and the secular.