Questions for discussion

1.     Polarization is partly based on economic neoliberal dynamics that changed the structure of society. Up to what extent did religion change and adapted itself to these neoliberal dynamics?

2.     Religion is worldwide developing in a direction of a growing orthodoxy. It is a development toward strong religion. This religious conservatism, can it be interpreted as the follow-up of 19th-century resistance of the churches vis-à-vis a secular society? If so, are churches themselves sources of polarization? 

3.     Covid opened a new front of polarization. How did religions react to the questions of the right of the individual versus the right of a community?