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have been in the last decades of the twentieth century diversely affected by what some philosophers have called “secularization”. This has been a societal mutation of societies in their various ways of relating to spiritual values in human life. To broaden the horizons, this section presents two articles related to different societies. Bérangère Massignon, from the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, asks first: “How does the European Union handle the relationships between confessional faiths and the unified body that it is striving to bring them about? Being inherently pluralistic, it is incumbent upon the EU to develop a new form of secularization.” Conversely, Meera Nanda, a microbiologist turned philosopher of science, explains in her contribution that “Today’s generation of middle class Indians are discarding the secular-humanist version of Hinduism that appealed to an earlier generation of elites and opting for a more overt religiosity.”
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