ABSTRACT
The American Association for the Sociology of Religion and the Research Committee 22 of the International Sociological Association came a little later. The RCT chapter balanced that on secularization, seeing the latter as the product of European thinking about religious change, whereas the discussion of RCT was part and parcel of the American case. Adam pursues a broader agenda developing the idea of multiple modernities, whereas Effie underlines the differences between Europe and America using as her lens an insightful comparison between the European Court of Human Rights and the Supreme Court. At the same time Adam introduces the notion of religious literacy, or rather the lack of it, a worrying feature in twenty-first century Europe. Religion may be more present than it used to be in public debate but we have yet to learn how to speak well about it.
