Getting to grips with the sacred and the profane. The study of religion

Abstract

What was and what is the study of religion?; Confesion or science – a real or ostensible dilemma?; Standards of rationality in the sacred and the profane; Agnostics and agnosticism. An attempt at typologization; Historicist and historical religious studies; Religious authorities of Christianity in the process of modernization; Modernera innovations in perceiving and presenting religion; Between the temptations of privatizing and globalizing religion; Radicalism in religions and narratives in the study of religion; “Replacements” of traditional religions.