ABSTRACT
Secularisation does not culminate in a definite factual state but will end endlessly. By bringing desecularisation “into play” with other notions – like secularisation, deconstruction, dis-enclosure, and desacralisation –, its meaning will become apparent, even if – or precisely because – all these terms do not bear definition. The exploration of a provocative term like desecularisation will only find favour with those who at least acknowledge the sense of the “end” of metaphysics as the event of a mutation and have at least considered Nietzsche’s autopsy of God. The popularity of the classical strong secularisation thesis is waning. The secularisation thesis has, according to some like Caputo, become a “grand narrative”, a priori overarching history. Actually, desecularisation is secularisation in terms of taking the "step back".
