Abstract

The religious is relocating itself within present-day European society. The religious is increasingly found in “unexpected” places: a Christian music festival, a Muslim dating event, a dance party in celebration of the end of Ramadan, and so on. Ever since the 1990s, the mingling of religion and popular culture has attracted quite some scholarly attention, ranging through sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians, and academics from the field of cultural and media studies (see Lynch 2007: 1–4; van Nieuwkerk 2011).