New frontiers of religious pluralism: notes on the post-regional and transreligious

Abstract

How to understand the growing population, in Brazil and in the world, of those without any religious affiliation: the so-called irreligious people? Are we entering a non-religious or post-religious era, in which the only thing left from traditional religions all over the world, is an introspective spirituality of silent meditation? Doesn’t this modelization of religion serve the omnipresent system of capitalistic domination – and its liberal “gospel”? Religious education, in the complexity context of this new “global village”, with its religious and post-religious pluralism, could or should deal only with the pedagogical dimensions between and beyond all faith traditions? Are we moving into the possibility of a general theology of religions and a post-religions theology focused on spirituality, which goes beyond not only one religion but religions as such? Or is this kind of theological pretension nothing more than a (wrong) philosophy of history? This paper attempts to give the first answers to these questions, exploring post-regional and transreligious theories, as the starting point.