ABSTRACT
There are media events in Catholic Europe that show how various secular and religious identities can coexist in the same physical and media spaces. These events present a model that goes beyond the concept of Catholic secularism. The theory of hypermediated religious spaces may help scholars to understand these events as depending on the entanglement of religious, secular, and post-secular spaces. It also allows connecting religious change with digital media practices. This chapter summarizes the book’s analysis of Muslim, atheist, and Catholic blogs by discussing the three dialectical pairings of alternative and mainstream, private and public, imaginary and real spaces. It offers reflections on hypermediated religious spaces as both a tool to understand contemporary religion and as an occasion for scholars to engage in public scholarship, thus amplifying the claims of given groups on the internet and contributing to shaping some patterns of religious change.
