1st Edition

Secular Religions The Key Concepts

By Tamás Nyirkos Copyright 2025
244 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Secular Religions: The Key Concepts provides a concise guide to those ideologies, worldviews, and social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that are most often described as the modern counterparts of traditional religions. Although there are many other terms in use (quasi, pseudo, ersatz, political, civil, etc.), it is “secular religion” that best expresses the problematic nature of... Read more

Introduction

 

A         Abortion

           Anarchism

           Animal Rights

           Anti-Racism

           Art

           Artificial Intelligence

           Atheism

 

B         Beauty

           Biotechnology

           BLM

           Bolshevism

           Boxing

 

C         Capitalism

           Celeb culture

           Climate Activism

           Cloning

           Colonialism

           Communism

           Computer Science

           Constitutionalism

           Consumerism

           Critical Race Theory

           Cultural Marxism

 

D         Dataism

           Darwinism

           Democracy

           DNA

 

E         Ecology

           Economics

           Electism

           Enlightenment

           Entertainment

           Environmentalism

           Evolutionism

 

F          Fandom

            Fascism

            Feminism

            Fitness

            Food

            Football

 

G         Gender

            Genetics

 

H         Health

            History

            Humanism

            Human Rights

 

I           Individualism

 

J           Juche

 

K         Kung Fu

 

L          Legalism

            Leninism

            Liberalism

            Love

 

M         Maoism

            Marxism

            Medicine

            Multiculturalism

 

N         Nationalism

            Nazism

            Nietzscheism

            Neoliberalism

 

O         Olympism

 

P          Pacifism

            Panopticism

            Patriotism

            Personality Cult

            Political Correctness

            Pop Culture

            Populism

            Positivism

            Postcolonialism

            Posthumanism

            Postmodernism

            Progress

            Psychology

 

R         Racism

            Republicanism

            Revolution

            Rock

 

S          Scientism

            Selfies

            Selfism

            Sex

            Singularity

            Skateboarding

            Social Justice Culture

            Social Media

            Socialism

            Sports

            Stalinism

           Statism

           Superintelligence

 

T          Technology

            Thinness

            Transhumanism

 

U         UFOs

           UN

           Übermensch

 

V         Veganism

           Vegetarianism

 

W         War

            Warmism

            Wokeness

Biography

Tamás Nyirkos is Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Politics and Government at the Ludovika University of Public Service in Budapest, Hungary, and Associate Professor of the Institute of International Studies and Political Science at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary.