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Interestingly, despite its growing importance in the public sphere (and eye), the future of religion is increasingly often tied to debates about potential “useful” substitutions. Among the examples is the “implicit” and capillary introduction of competing school subjects to religion, as at yet mainly in Europe.
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Benedikter, R. (2022). The Debate About the Future of Religion: A Particularly Wide Field—Between “Happiness” as a Substitute and the Growing Global Impact of the Traditional. In: Religion in the Age of Re-Globalization. Culture and Religion in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80857-0_24
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