The international academic journal Religions has published the Special Issue “Europe, Religion and Secularization: Trends, Paradoxes and Dilemmas”, guest edited by LusoGlobe researcher and Associate Professor at Lusófona University Jorge Botelho Moniz, together with Grace Davie, Professor Emerita at the University of Exeter and a leading international scholar in the sociology of religion and secularisation studies.
Religions is an international peer-reviewed journal indexed in Scopus and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index of Web of Science. It is currently ranked in the first quartile, Q1, in the Religious Studies category according to the Scopus CiteScore classification.
The Special Issue brings together ten scholarly contributions addressing transformations in religion and secularisation in contemporary societies. The contributions examine issues including religious diversity, emerging forms of religiosity, state-religion relations, generational change, freedom of religion or belief, populism, digitalisation, war, and the broader effects of social and political change on the relationship between religion and modernity.
The collection also includes the editorial “Europe, Religion and Secularization: Trends, Paradoxes and Dilemmas”, authored by Jorge Botelho Moniz and Grace Davie and published in 2026. The editorial revisits the debate on secularisation in Europe, considering both transformations in religious institutions and the continuing presence of different expressions of the sacred within contemporary European societies.
The Special Issue has already attracted more than 20,000 views on the journal’s platform, reflecting the academic and wider public interest generated by the subject.
The coordination of this Special Issue represents another significant outcome of the internationalisation of research at LusoGlobe, promoting collaboration among scholars from different institutions and strengthening Lusófona University’s presence in international debates on religion, secularisation, and political and social transformation.
