Charentenay de, Pierre (Uniwersytet Opolski. Redakcja Wydawnictw Wydziału Teologicznego, 2015)
In recent history where there was a nation, there was a religion, according to the famous formula Cujus region ejus religio. But in the 1960s a double movement started, first concerning secularization which will lead people to what some authors have called an “exculturation”, when the personal practice is detached from the national culture. The second movement leads people to migration all over the world, with their own religions, Muslim people in Europe, or Evangelicals in Muslim countries. The culture of a country is not anymore Catholic or Protestant, but secular. Its identity has to find other roots than reli gion. This movement is developed differently according to the local culture. It has been very strong in Western Europe, and slower in some countries of Eastern Europe and the US. It can provoke fundamentalist reactions, in order to defend ones identity, but the divorce between nation and religion is on the way.
