ABSTRACT
Religion and politics had clearly always been entwined, but were now also linked when they were discussed, so that scepticism about one manifested itself in the attitude towards the other. A link was consequently created between political and religious scepticism more in terms of attitude than content. Religion was also part of the phenomenon as it was a political aspect of life; people started to investigate it using the same critical tools and applying the same spirit of scepticism. When the ability of information penetrates the urban fabric and establishes an extensive network, the systematic scepticism also inevitably affected other areas of experience besides historical knowledge. The main large-scale influence that the information market had on religious matters was therefore a change in the way reality was interpreted, with an increase in the spread of a form of scepticism that started to affect religion too.
