ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shares what he learnt about the way the world of learning operates in its everyday scholarly practice. One of the oddities of the sociology of religion is that it may appear to be a minor sub-discipline of sociology, however central it was to sociology's founding fathers. The question concerning the real character of a given religion, like the question concerning what is really religious, is not at all marginal to the issues at play in the secularisation debate. The author describes about initial criticism of the concept of secularisation in several key articles such as 'Towards Eliminating the Concept of Secularisation', 'Utopian Aspects of the Concept of Secularisation'. Most major intellectual enterprises in sociology can be beset with precisely the problems just indicated. Religion, like the sacred, has a complex linguistic history in varied cultural epochs.
