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Introduction
I look at the intertwinement of contemporary and future macro-, meso- and micro-developments in an inter-, multi- and trans-disciplinary view. My focus is on global-local transformation, interdisciplinary anticipation, and good governance of “glocal” phenomena. I use foresight, futures literacy and anticipatory innovation governance to facilitate participatory processes and inclusive anticipation. I serve as a speaker and advisor on contemporary affairs and interdisciplinary futures.
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September 2015 - August 2023
University of Wroclaw/Breslau
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Der Beitrag gibt in zwei Teilen einen Überblick über die sich vervielfältigenden zeitgenössischen Ansätze zu Antizipationspolitiken. Die wachsende Zahl von Debatten über „Zukünfte“ der politischen, sozialen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung zeigen vor allem eins: Das aktuelle Doppelzeitalter aus Unsicherheit und Beschleunigung stel...
This essay provides a concise impression of the many contemporary attempts to revitalize futures thinking. Futures thinking—in the sense of a systematic anticipatory approach based on sound scientific expertise and backed by socio-philosophical reasoning which must carefully balance idealism and pragmatism—was asleep for some time but is now rapidl...
Contemporary brain research is challenging Western societal norms by questioning basic cornerstones such as individuality, freedom, rationality, solidarity, and the concept of the human being in general. It is giving way to profound changes in Western concepts of culture and civilization. This volume provides a broad overview of the cultural change...
This chapter provides a basic introduction to the concepts and practices of neuroscience, neuroculture, and neuroethics. It discusses where they stand, why they are so prominently on the rise, and what their perspectives are.
This chapter provides an introduction to neurophilosophy which is not a well-confined field but often rather the eclectic use of elements of the history of philosophy for the observation and further development of neuroscience and, in particular, neuroethics. This chapter describes its foundations in “post-humanistic” thought with particular regard...
While posthumanism remains a strong influence on the concepts of neuroscience and neuroethics, there is a second major ideology that is impacting the orientation of the field: neurotranshumanism. Contrary to posthumanism, transhumanism aims at using neurotechnology to radically modify the use and concept of the human body and mind in order to progr...
Many observers are convinced that given that neurotechnology is changing the traditional self-image of human beings throughout very different societies, it might ultimately induce a “posthuman” technological self that will be the new normal. This chapter explains what neuroanthropology is and how it is changing our perception of ourselves.
The approach of neurocivics posits the question of whether civic institutions are ready for moral bio-enhancement. This chapter introduces the term and practice of neurocivics and draws the perspectives.
Given that there are new ideological fights around the “right use” of neurotechnology and neuroscience, the divide between idealistic and realistic stances has widened. Sure is that a new neurorealism is needed to find a balance between empiricism and subjectivity, or the outer and the inner dimensions of what is addressed by neuroresearch.
This chapter provides an impression of applications in the field of the so-called “New Human Technologies (NHT).” It addresses Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and their use and explains what neuroenhancement is and could become.
This chapter presents a conclusion and outlook on the future of neuroscience, neuroculture, and neuroethics. It discusses how these fields and their intersection might evolve and be further developed.
Contemporary neuropolitics opens new frontiers for policy and strategy due to the unprecedented bandwidth of actual and potential applications and directions of development. This chapter describes what neuropolitics is and where it might be going from here.
Neuroeconomics might change the crucial field of economics profoundly over the coming decades. This chapter introduces the term and explains the most important features of the nascent practices related to it.
The rising field of neuroethics is about combining a holistic approach with preparedness and precautions against the misuse of neurotechnologies. This chapter describes what neuroethics is, what it aims to achieve, and why it must be a trans-systemic and international endeavor.
This chapter describes and discusses the most important programs and visions of the field of neuroresearch and neuroscience developed over the past decades. Some have materialized, others have not, and the question is why, and what this means in the outlook.
Welche Zukunftstechnologien werden Südtirol in den kommenden Jahren prägen? Und wie können sie bestmöglich zum Wohl von Bürgern und territorialer Gemeinschaft eingesetzt werden? Diese Fragen bilden den Hintergrund für eine Landes-Techno-logievision. Für sie werden in diesem Buch leicht zugänglich, allgemein verständlich und auf wissenschaftlicher G...
Quali tecnologie future caratterizzeranno l'Alto Adige nei prossimi anni? E come possono essere utilizzate al meglio a beneficio dei cittadini e della comunità territoriale? Queste domande costituiscono lo sfondo di una visione tecnologica provinciale. Il libro fornisce elementi facilmente accessibili, generalmente comprensibili e scientificamente...
In Burkina Faso, malaria remains a major issue despite the use of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), especially in underserved communities. A study assessed a mobile phone-based Interactive Voice Response (IVR) service in local languages to improve malaria health literacy. A randomized trial compared users of the local language version with those usi...
Der Beitrag liefert einen Satellitenblick auf die Globalisierung der pluri-ethnischen
Modellregion Südtirol im Dreiländereck Italien-Österreich-Schweiz. Wie andere
Gebiete bewegt sich diese autonome Provinz im wachsend einflussreichen
Spannungsfeld zwischen globalen und regionalen Einflussfaktoren. Südtirols
Globalisierungsentwicklung wird nach ras...
This book explores the contemporary dynamics of European football’s political economy, mapping the various market and regulatory forces that shape its current position and development. Offering a conceptual framework for understanding political economy as applied to the study of football, the book presents in depth case studies from Central and Eas...
100 Jahre Tierschutz: Wir wissen fast mehr über das Weltall als über Tiere. Dabei ist unser Verhältnis zu diesen eine der ganz großen Herausforderungen. Manche meinen sogar, wir sollten uns mit ihnen vermischen: Fragen an das zweite Jahrhundert im Tierschutz.
Die Chatbot-Revolution ist in aller Munde. Sie ist Teil des seit Jahren mit Milliarden-schweren Investitionen zunehmenden KI-Hypes, der mit großer Geschwindigkeit unsere Gewohnheiten verändert, mit Information umzugehen. Aber damit nicht genug: die Chatbot-Revolution beginnt auch damit, die Politik umzuformen. Wie, zeigt dieser Beitrag.
Ende November 2023 fand in Dubais „Museum der Zukunft“ das zweite Weltzukunftsforum statt. Es ist das jährlich größte Treffen von Zukunftsexpert*innen der Welt mit mehr als 2500 Teilnehmer*innen aus 100 Ländern von 100 Institutionen. Die Themen reichten von neuen Technologien über die Revolution in der Landwirtschaft bis zum Weltraum und neuen Kult...
KI revolutioniert Kunst und stellt Vorstellungen infrage. Wird Authentizität bald obsolet? Die Beispiele Beatles, ABBA und Taylor Swift legen das nahe. Essay über einen schleichenden Umbruch.
Die eigentliche Kulturrevolution erfolgt womöglich am menschlichen Körper. Doch ist das überhaupt ratsam? Ein Essay zu wissenschaftlichen Durchbrüchen.
This article explains the concept and realities of Re-Globalization from scratch. No previous knowledge is needed. It contextualizes Re-Globalization in the contemporary socio-political, cultural and "civilizational" environment.
Roland Benedikter, Soziologe und Politikwissenschaftler, besuchte im November 2023 das Dubai Zukunftsforum, die weltweit größte „Zukunftskonferenz“ im „Museum der Zukunft“. In den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten herrscht ein vorwiegend technologisch geprägter Zukunftsgedanken vor, der zu Recht viel bewundert wird, aber die soziale Modernisierung ka...
Zwischen Kunst und Technologie: In einem Gastbeitrag spricht Soziologe und Politikwissenschaftler Roland Benedikter über die Zukunft der Realität und die aufstrebende Ära der Augmented Reality in urbanen Räumen.
Mit transnationalen Jugendgangs, die sich jenseits traditioneller Verbandsstrukturen dynamisch entwickeln, beschäftigt sich Roland Benedikter im Beitrag. Der Autor stützt sich bei seinen Ausführungen auf Ergebnisse des EU-Projekts TRANSGANG. Gangs oder „Tribes“ dieser Art entwickeln sich – ohne die Einbindung in die Werte und Strukturen von Verbänd...
Chile is a special case of democratic evolution in Latin America and in many fields not representative of other nations on the continent. Nevertheless, the countries’ attempts to reform its constitution have been subject to close observation both in its geopolitical area and internationally. This article discusses the state and transformation patte...
After a period of relative calm, football violence appears to be making a comeback in Europe. This article identifies a series of factors that explain this reemergence.
OPEN ACCESS BOOK Since the end of the Cold War, globalization—the process and the idea—has been reshaping the world. Global studies scholarship has emerged to make sense of the transnational manifestations of globalization: economic, social, cultural, ideological, technological, environmental, and postcolonial. But a series of crises in the first t...
BACKGROUND
Diabetes is a significant health concern in sub-Saharan Africa, emphasizing the need to assess the health literacy and eHealth skills of hospitalised diabetic patients. This study evaluated the health literacy and eHealth literacy of diabetic patients in Donka Hospital (Guinea) and Sanou Sourou Hospital (Burkina Faso), providing insights...
Background
Diabetes is a significant health concern in sub-Saharan Africa, emphasizing the importance of assessing the health literacy and eHealth skills of hospitalized patients with diabetes. This study evaluated the health literacy and eHealth literacy of patients with diabetes at Donka Hospital in Guinea and Sanou Sourou Hospital in Burkina Fas...
In 2019, the EU and Mercosur reached agreement on a trade deal, yet four years later, the deal remains unratified. Carlos Cruz Infante and Roland Benedikter examine the obstacles that continue to block progress toward ratification.
Wenn wir uns digitalisieren und den Maschinen ähnlicher werden, müssen wir neu deuten, was der Mensch ist. Die Debatte, ab wann im Umfeld seiner biologischen Zeugung ein Mensch ein Mensch ist, hat bereits eine längere Tradition. Dagegen steckt die Frage, wie lange ein Mensch ein Mensch bleibt, wenn sein Körper und Geist sich immer stärker mit Techn...
Der Beitrag von Roland Benedikter untersucht das Verhältnis von Politologie und Zukunftsforschung. Er geht dabei vor allem einer Frage nach: Was ist der Stand der Dinge hinsichtlich der Einbeziehung der Zukunft in die zeitgenössische Politikwissenschaft? Eine Frage, die auch direkt die Zukunft der Sozialdemokratie betrifft... Zeitschrift DIE ZUKUNF...
From what point does Artificial Intelligence (AI) reshape humans instead of being in their service? And what will be the perspective of humans as we know them if the human body and mind converge ever more directly with AI-driven “New Human Technologies”? The author continues the discussion started in Challenge 62/1/2019 on the future of humanity in...
Religion and political spirituality play a core role in Russia’s Ukraine war. They serve as blueprints of justification and motivation, and in this function have replaced ideology as immaterial kit. They lend the aura of metaphysical substance to the nihilistic system of Putin’s authoritarian regime, camouflaging egocentric domestic and foreign pol...
Religion and political spirituality play a core role in Russia’s Ukraine war. They serve as blueprints of justification and motivation, and in this function have replaced ideology as immaterial kit. They lend the aura of metaphysical substance to the nihilistic system of Putin’s authoritarian regime, camouflaging egocentric domestic and foreign pol...
Around the world, mobile phones have been used for quite some years now to put healthcare systems into interactive action through various mobile health applications. The results regarding efficiency, access, greater social equality, and interconnectivity are proven, and they promise to mitigate economic and educational gaps. All this is increasingl...
Der Hype um Künstliche Intelligenz kennt keine Grenzen. Er erreicht auch das Selbstverständnis von Politik. Eine umfassende Veränderung der Politik durch Künstliche Intelligenz wird vorausgesagt. Zu Recht? Tatsächliche Veränderungstrends mischen sich mit "Imaginationspolitiken" (imaginal politics) und Interessen. Wer das künftige Verhältnis zwische...
Der Artikel behandelt den Schnittpunkt Künstliche Intelligenz-Mensch. Dabei geht er anhand zahlreicher Beispiele auf die Zukunft des Menschenbildes unter hyper-technologischen Bedingungen ein.
In Russia's 2022 Ukraine war the role of religion is manifest in the "metaphysical" narratives anchoring (and feeding into) it, and - to that end - in religion's amalgamation with apparently "anticipatory" nationalist-eschatological philosophies. These depict themselves as "spiritual" to play the role of ideological "proto-religions" in order to gr...
Sub-Saharan Africa is known to feature some of the weakest healthcare systems in the world. The expanding field of mobile technology in healthcare over the past years, commonly known as mHealth, has been considered to have potential leverage for supporting and improving healthcare systems, especially in disadvantaged areas, if people are literate e...
In Russia’s 2022 Ukraine war the role of religion is manifest in the “metaphysical” narratives anchoring (and feeding into) it, and – to that end – in religion’s amalgamation with apparently “anticipatory” nationalist-eschatological philosophies. These depict themselves as “spiritual” to play the role of ideological “proto-religions” in order to gr...
ENGLISH: This OPEN ACCESS book discusses the renewability of the political centre in European democracies. The recent environment of repeated bundles of crises, new social technologies, individualisation and the rise of populism have caused socio-psychological upheaval. As a consequence, the centre of open societies—the moderate middle ground—has b...
The African gaming industry is beginning to flourish as a result of a rise in the availability of inexpensive phones and the number of mobile phone subscribers. It has enabled the development and implementation of mobile serious games to promote healthy behavior change in rural communities. This paper examines the use of mobile serious games in hea...
El triunfo del «rechazo» ante la propuesta de texto de la vislumbrada nueva Constitución de Chile en el referéndum del 4 de septiembre, abre una nueva etapa de incertidumbre en la transición del país más austral del globo hacia un Estado de bienestar moderno y una democracia con una transición cerrada.
The triumph of the “reject” vote in the September 4 referendum on the proposed text of Chile’s envisaged new constitution opens up a new phase of uncertainty in the globe’s southernmost nation’s transition to a modern welfare state and a properly contextualized democracy.
Wohin kann sich regionale angewandte Wissenschaft unter dem steigenden Druck von Globalisierungswirkungen bewegen? Fünf Dimensionen sind zur Beantwortung dieser Frage beachtenswert: der Strukturwandel der Wissenschaft, die Veränderung akademischer Arbeitsformen, die zunehmende Bedeutung globaler Themen für regionale Forschung, die Datenrevolution u...
Nicht erst die jüngsten Rundfunk-Skandale in Deutschland haben gezeigt: Das Fernsehen wird zum überholten Modell. Nicht nur Einzelfälle von Missbrauch, sondern die Entwicklung von Mediensphäre und kritischer Öffentlichkeit selbst machen das Fernsehen überflüssig – über Fragen von Politik oder Personen hinaus. Fernsehen ist überholt nicht nur als Ko...
The Coronavirus crisis which started at the end of 2019 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 have cut deep into the tissue of Europe's socioeconomic backbone, namely impacting its small and medium sized enterprises. On the basis of seven strategic axes, Roland Benedikter provides an outlook on the future perspective of European SMEs...
Chileans will vote on a new constitution after submitting a new text to replace the one which stems from the Augusto Pinochet era. The uncertainty over its approval comes from the disenchant towards a real social, economic and political reform, meaning that Chile's democracy is in a challenging moment, Miguel Zlosilo (Artool, Chile) and Roland Bene...
Roland Benedikter surveys the views of globalization experts, politicians, opinion leaders, intellectuals and international media regarding Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. On this basis, he draws conclusions about the impact on – and prospect for – the overall course and further direction of globalization. Given the general turn towards re-globa...
Guinea is an exemplary case of North-South exploitation, as well as of the ambiguities involved on both sides. This is what is shown by the case of its foreign-stored gold reserves and the dubious attempts of Guinea's current military junta to take back control. The solution lies in reforms on both sides.
The article analyzes the state and perspectives of Chile's Constitutional Referendum. Chile's constitutional reform will decide upon the further course of the country and is regarded as a example for others. Despite being the southernmost country in the world with quite particular characteristics in geography, economy, history, social structure and...
In women’s international football, teams from Western Europe dominate, while Central and Eastern European countries are absent. Roland Benedikter and Dariusz Wojtaszyn explore why women’s football enjoys more success in Western Europe, and examine whether there is appetite for change.
As all sports, women’s football is in its essence and backgrounds political. The Women’s European Football Championships in England 2022 are no exception. They clearly manifest the different development patterns of Western and Central Eastern Europe. Dariusz Wojtaszyn and Roland Benedikter provide five reasons why Central Eastern European Women’s t...
As the Women’s European Football Championships England 2022 near their climax, why have teams from central and eastern Europe again been absentees? Why does women’s football appear to have developed much more slowly in eastern Europe than in the West? There are five main factors.
The Coronavirus crisis which started at the end of 2019 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 have cut deep into the tissue of Europe’s socio-economic backbone, namely impacting its small and medium-sized enterprises. On the basis of seven strategic axes, Roland Benedikter gives an outlook on the future perspective of European SMEs.
Roland Benedikter argues that UNESCO's Futures Literacy approach is key to ensuring global policies are appropriate for and taken up by local communities. To this end, for several years UNESCO has developed as one of its centerpieces the "Futures Literacy" approach. Futures Literacy is about the question: How can we overcome the poverty of imaginat...
Chile is the Global South’s “exceptional nation” in terms of wealth and historical development patterns, but most recently it has been aligning with some of the geopolitical area’s traits. Together with the constitutional reform process, the resounding victory of the left under the lead of Gabriel Boric Font (born 1986) in Chile’s December 2021 pre...
Driven by an increase in the availability of cheap low-cost mobile phones and a jump in the number of telecom subscribers, the African gaming world is booming. Most importantly, it has opened an opportunity for rural communities to have an almost identical mobile phone experience than people living in urban areas. It has also opened an opportunity...
Mobile technology is widely used in healthcare. However, designers and developers in many cases have focused on developing solutions that are often tailored to highly literate people. While the advent of the pandemic has called for people to seek and use Covid-19 related information to adapt their behaviors, it is relatively difficult for low liter...
Background and Purpose: Mobile phones have been used to support healthcare systems through various mobile health (m-health) applications. In Africa, m-health initiatives have been used in many interventions, including education and awareness, clinical and non-clinical decision support systems, epidemic outbreak tracking, training of healthcare work...
Das 50-Jahr-Jubiläum der Südtiroler Autonomie im Jahr 2022 ist Anlass zur Rückschau, aber auch zur Vorausschau. Dieser Beitrag schildert zwei Zukunftscluster, die, verankert in der Autonomieregelung, diese vom Wissenschafts- und Forschungsbereich aus weiter stärken, entwickeln und ausbauen können. Es sind 1. die innovativen Themen angewandter Sozia...
Eine der wichtigsten Zukunftsfragen für Österreich und die EU ist die Zukunft ihres tragenden Wirtschaftsbereichs: der Klein- und Mittelbetriebe, einschließlich des Handwerks. Dieser Beitrag nennt sechs Pfeiler für eine integrative Zukunftsstrategie. Dabei geht er auf das Beispiel Südtirol ein.
Guinea is an exemplary case of North-South exploitation, as well as of the ambiguities involved on both sides. This is what is shown by the case of its foreign-stored gold reserves and the unclear attempts of Guinea's current military junta to take back control. As poor transparency in European-African financial relations is still too often the cas...
Südtirol als Territorialautonomie gilt heute als eines der besten Beispiele erfolgreicher Konfliktlösung im europäischen und internationalen Kontext. Vor 50 Jahren wurden Südtirol mit dem zweiten Autonomiestatut eine Vielzahl von Kompetenzen übertragen. Eine Bilanz der Südtiroler Autonomie und ihrer internationalen Übertragbarkeit.
The lasting impact of Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine could be contrary to what the Russian President intended, writes Roland Benedikter. The Russia-Ukraine war could ultimately serve as a demonstration of how authoritarian regimes can sow the seeds of their own downfall.
Half a year after the 2021 coup in Guinea, the military junta has attempted to control the National Bank's foreign-stored gold reserves. Relatedly, a tug-of-war has ensued over the financing and resources allocated to democratic parties in view of promised elections. To transition into a successful democracy, Roland Benedikter writes that a key cha...
Since Guinea’s military coup in 2021, a junta has established a transition council ahead of declared democratic elections. But the process has failed to break from the country’s ethnic politics. Roland Benedikter argues that the transition needs to engage the challenge of ethnic diversity and forge good relations between groups to progress the coun...
Welche Zukunftstechnologien werden die kommenden Jahre prägen? Und wie können wir sie bestmöglich zum Wohle von Bürgern und Gemeinschaft nutzen? Diesen Fragen stellte sich das Landtagshearing „Zukunftstechnologien“ im Südtiroler Landtag im Februar 2022. Der Südtiroler Landtag, das Parlament der Autonomen Provinz Bozen-Südtirol im Dreiländereck Ital...
Quali tecnologie domineranno i prossimi anni? E come possiamo usarli nel miglior modo possibile a beneficio dei cittadini e della comunità? Queste sono state le domande affrontate dall'audizione “Tecnologie del futuro” del Consiglio della Provincia autonoma di Bolzano in febbraio 2022. Il Consiglio della Provincia autonoma di Bolzano-Alto Adige in...
Re-Globalization examines the changing face of globalization, with political, economic, and social balances in flux, and tensions increasing in many parts of the globe. This book discusses and problematizes the current transition phase of globalization in response to issues such as inequalities, climate change, and health crises, offering a compreh...
Die UNESCO ist die Welt-Bildungs-, Kultur- und Erziehungsorganisation der Vereinten Nationen. Sie hat die Aufgabe, die Menschheit durch gemeinsame Ideen – und die gemeinsame Arbeit an diesen Ideen – zu vereinen. Der neue Ansatz der "Zukünftebildung" oder "Futures Literacy" ist eine zukunftsweisende Möglichkeit, verschiedene Stränge von Zukunfts- un...
Re-globalization is a relatively new term. It intends to frame and characterize the most recent phase of globalization: the phase we are currently in. Although the term is not undisputed, in every respect still in the making and must be contextualized according to different environments, it serves as a connecting bond between a variety of phenomena...
All this eventually brings us, in conclusion, to the complex, never-ending and in re-globalization times more than ever enduring topic of religion and critique. This includes the even bigger question mark behind the interface between religion and irony. The views on and practices at this interface vary particularly strongly between open and closed,...
Juergen Habermas, a German forethinker of European and global democracy, has recently surprised many with his reaction to the symptoms of re-globalization. Trying to save the openness of Western open societies while at the same time strengthening the sense of unity, civic solidarity and civil commitment through the revival of a secular idealism mea...
When it comes to civil religion as one important “social kit” of globalized societies, paradoxa between the two pillars of global democracy—both sides of the Atlantic—abound. For example, a paradoxical difference between Europe and the United States is that Europe has no comparable unifying civil religion, i.e., no common public rational sphere and...
Although some of the inherent consequences of these projections may be disputed, as illustrated by a supposed decreasing influence of non-believers on global politics, the general view is sustained by the world’s demographic development projection for the coming years.
The dispute is about where all these trends eventually point to. Where may they ultimately lead in regard to the coming years? And how can they be steered in a productive direction?
If Islam today is a growing demographic, cultural and political force on the international stage, other religions have noticed this and have responded with a stronger politicization partly accompanied by a growing Anti-Islamist stance. This does not mean that the re-politicization trend in global politics is just a reaction to the growth of Islam....
Where does religion stand in the present? And what are its perspectives? Are there trends which point to substantial transformation—while others do not, rather reaffirming and reviving traditional concepts and practices? Are traditional and post-traditional, formal and post-formal trajectories reconcilable, particularly if they are undertaken simul...
An eighth trend is the apparent—although often still “weak” but widespread—liberalization process within some of the politically and socially most authoritarian and strict religious societies.
Together, and in their (widely unsystematic) interplay, the twenty-one trends seem to be currently contributing to both redefine the traditional self-concept of “religion” as practiced in post-neoliberal globalization, and to refine crucial approaches of contextual politics which, not least because of these trends, are increasingly becoming an impo...
In June 2020, UN Secretary-General António Guterres eloquently illustrated the main aspects of the era of re-globalization in his speech on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations (charter signed on June 26, 1945, formal coming into existence October of the same year).
Interestingly, such a broad spectrum of re-globalization phenomena widely coincides with an allegedly fundamental turn within the mainstream mindset (if there is such a thing) in Western open societies. This turn is connected with an increasing sense of “uncontrollability of the world.” It seems to be underway, with increasing insistence, since the...
With these aspects, we have laid a primordial basis to map the present situation of religion. What we also have to observe, at least in precautionary manners, is that in times of the new trinity of re-globalization, post-postmodernity and meta-modernity, contradictions are often inbuilt in one and the same phenomenon.
With a lot of contemporary debate centered on the differences and affinities between church religions and so-called “citizen spirituality,” the latter including “alternative spiritualities” and the heritage of “postmodern spirituality,” organized historical groups such as Freemasonry or Rosicrucianism are often neglected.
The list of examples of both trends, toward more explicit and implicit forms of contemporary religion, is endless, and as such is a characteristic of the ambivalence of re-globalization as a potential historical epoque. The rise of political (in the above mentioned case Islamistic and anti-Islamic) factions are a driving force in world politics, im...
Two further factors will influence the future of religion: switching and migration.
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Since "Resilient Society" requires a particularly strong focus on inter- and multi-disciplinarity, studies seem to be still relatively scarse. Which works are you aware of, also with regard to sectorial research or particular and partial issues, that should in any case be included into a new, encompassing overview over the topic for the present and future?
There are some outside models such as the Australian or the Canadian one, and a variety of proposals of how to best adapt them to the EU context (i.e. the current European refugee and migration crisis) - but where are the specifically European ideas not just focusing on integration, which would be the second or third step in dealing with the challenge, but on the first logical step: (integrated) migration policy? Do you know of any concrete proposal catalogues stemming from and/or for any level of multi-level governance in the EU?
