ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the formation of ethical subjectivities that emerge in and through postsecularity. While critics of postsecularity suggest its novelty is more as an intellectual framework than as an empirical phenomenon, it focuses on the seismic empirical shifts in subjectivity that have led to the rupturing of previously calcified lines drawn between the 'religious' and 'secular'. It emphasises the emergent subjectivities that seem to be bubbling up through this process, and the ways in which they are reterritorialising the contemporary landscape of religion, ethics, and politics. Building on arguments made by Cloke and Beaumont, it suggests both the initial willingness to enter into the spaces of postsecularity, and the subsequent prevalence of such entries, have been intensified by the erosion of religious and secular fundamentalisms. The chapter illustrates the ways in which postsecularity in different contexts serves as a catalyst in generating energies for receptive generosity, rapprochement and hopeful re-enchantment.
