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According to the secularization thesis, religious faith should have long ago disappeared, overwhelmed by the forces of progress. Yet while explicit membership in denominational communities is certainly less an obligatory feature of contemporary culture than it was a generation or two ago, modes of religion still play important roles in aspects of social life. This issue of Telos explores some of the ramifications of this afterlife of faith.

Greg Melleuish opens the discussion, explaining how religion is changing rapidly and in unexpected ways, as he underscores by pointing to Olivier Roy's stunning juxtaposition of two new formations: “Evangelicalism and Salafism…