Secularization: A philosophical and empirical enquiry from the Peruvian context
Keywords:
counter-conversion, secularization, sacred, evidence, scienceAbstract
This article studies the process of secularization as expressed in the reality of people who have experienced a counter-conversion. This phenomenon would seem to revive an old misunderstanding between science and religion that, even today, would not be solved. Without ignoring this conflict, we have wondered if, despite the growth of secularization in academic environments (especially Peruvian), it is also possible to identify a transcultural emergence of what can be described as a neo-spirituality based on non-ontological transcendence.
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