Description: Analysis of (post-)secularized and modernized societies to define the state of the sacred today and to decipher its different forms within the city.
Brief description: W. Van Herck is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and the Centre Pieter Gillis of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is the co-editor of Humour and Religion (2011) and The Sacred in the City (2012). He is editor in chief of Bijdragen, International Journal in Theology and Philosophy.