ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book about the hopeful possibility that emerging geographies of post-secularity are able to contribute significantly to the understanding of how common life may be shared. It is also about how caring for the common goods of social justice, well-being, equality, solidarity, and respect for difference may be imagined and practiced. Although the religious and the secular are often defined as binary opposites, our discussion in the book explores alternative configurations of these terms. The book also examines that geographies of postsecularity that are evident, and can be comprehended, in normative, empirical, and phenomenological registers, reflecting a blurring of sacred and secular spaces and subjectivities through the co-production of hopeful imaginaries, hopeful ethical sensibilities, and hopeful practices. One of the key distinctions in our approach to postsecularity is that it is recognised to be context-contingent.
