ABSTRACT
The chapter deals with the relation between religion and migration in contemporary society. I intend to analyse this relation showing its implication for the social theory. In that sense my first assumption is a sort of Husserlian epoché concerning the conventional approach of the sociology of religion I used to adopt as a scholar of this discipline when analysing the impact of migration on the religious landscape. Scholars of sociology of religion tend to focus on the various types of religious transnationalism in a global world (since the seminal studies by Roland Robertson (1992) and by Peter Beyer (1994) and more recently by Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman (2007)); the concept of multiple modernity referred to the differences between secularized and religious societies (see; Berger et al., 1999; Dobbelaere, 2002; Hervieu-Léger, 2003; Davie et al., 2008); the discussion about the notion of boundaries particularly taking into consideration the movement of people around the world, and the consequences on the socio-religious structures of the contemporary society (Ebaugh and Chafetz, 2000; Smith, 2000; Corten and Marshall-Fratani, 2001; Wu, 2001; Spickard, 2007); the process of de-culturalization and de-territorialization of religion (Roy, 2004).
