Religion and religiosity in transformations – methodological dilemmas

Abstract

In the article, the author attempts to prove that traditional research tools are no longer useful to investigate contemporary religious phenomena, regardless of how they are defned in the postmodern world, in which they lose their credibility in terms of being the only source of sense and morality. Therefore, new theories and new theses, or even a paradigm shift, are necessary in order to raise new questions about what is happening with religion in a fluid, inconstant and variable reality.

Keywords

• Religião
• religiosidade
• secularização
• pós-modernismo
• transformações