ABSTRACT
Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of scholarship exploring the notion of the postsecular in a variety of spatial contexts. This chapter examines the variegated geographies of postsecularity in different global, social, and political arenas. It begins by mapping the different spatial contexts in which postsecularity is emerging and the heterogeneous concerns being mobilised. The chapter examines the 'politics of curation' at work within emergent spaces of postsecularity through two focused case-studies: faith-based drug and alcohol treatment and recovery, and emergency food provision in the UK. These empirical case-studies show how the three modalities of postsecularity receptive generosity, rapprochement, and hopeful re-enchantment are working out differently in different spaces. By foregrounding the configurations of religious and non-religious curation, the chapter provides a more grounded assessment of the kinds of politics and ethics emerging in and through spaces of postsecularity.
