The resurgence of religion into the media and public consciousness during the last few decades is an important political and academic phenomenon. It challenges conventional theories of modernisation that hold secularisation to be a precondition for modern democracy and science.

In a similar way, morality is arguably an increasingly contentious issue as people struggle with the issue of how one becomes a good person and creates or maintains ’the good society’ in a global and neo-liberal world.

The researchers in this theme take up this double challenge by studying the role of religion and morality in modern institutions, political processes, ethno-religious movements, and scientific experiments, as well as vis-à-vis dominant ideas of secularism  – within as well as outside Europe.

The Section is host within this theme to the English language M.A. degree ’Global Studies and Development’ as well as to the M.A. degree in ’Health and Welfare’.

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