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The relevance of religion and the sacred in the global affairs of the twenty-second century is the subject of an ongoing debate. Most scholars however agree that the influence of this factor has significantly changed in the past century: both as a consequence of the phenomenon known as “convergence” between the major “traditional” faiths, as a consequence of the ongoing secularization process; and because of the association of different ideas of religiosity with the cleavage between Technoutopian and Neogaian perspectives.
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⟨see https://ssw.pewresearch.org.earth—last update: Ψ 01/12/2118⟩.
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Even if it had its momentum in the 2070s, Dakeos and Tollen (2115) maintain that nowadays those who lie to the daily survey system are about 17% of the Earth population (32% in the USE).
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This terms, derived from the Jewish tradition (where it refers to the food regarded as “pure”), became of common use in relation to this debate after the publication of the essay Kosher and forbidden technologies: A blueprint to save the human race, by the US sociologist Ramon Ben Porat ⟨Ψ 2073⟩.
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Gibson-Stark ⟨Ψ 2053⟩ does not include techno-radicals among the unconvergent groups, because, she argues, they stem from the general acceptance and celebration of technology praised by convergent religions.
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Ozzano, L., Giorgi, A. (2023). World Religions. In: Horn, L., Mert, A., Müller, F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13722-8_18
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