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Klaus Eder
(b.1946) studied sociology at Frankfurt University and the University of Constance. In 1984 he took his Habilitation at the University of Düsseldorf, where he was Privatdozent from 1985 onwards; he was also Heisenberg Fellow and research director of the study group for social science research, Munich. He is now professor of sociology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
His works include Collective Memory and European Identity: The Effects Of Integration and Enlargement (2005), European Citizenship. National Legacies and Transnational Politics (2001), and Kulturelle Identität zwischen Tradition und Utopie (2000).Eurozine Articles
Post-secularism: A return to the public sphere
During secularization, says Klaus Eder, religion did not disappear completely. It only became invisible to the public sphere. In Europe, this was a result of the two dominant Christian religions -- Protestantism and Catholicism -- which drove other religious beliefs into the private sphere. He terms the recent return of religion to the public sphere post-secularism. [more]
European secularization: A special route to post-secular society?
A theoretical note
Post-secular society is the contradictory and uncontrollable counterpart of the secular state. Both are accelerated and regulated by a third actor: a public sphere formed by the mass media. [more]