This book deals with the current place of religion in four countries: Russia, Indonesia (Java), India and Western Europe. What factors allow religions a renewed expression of faiths in these cultures once the exported versions of the humanism of the Enlightenment and the humanism of post-modernity have failed to provide a strong hierarchy of values, transcendence needed to hold society together? A humanism that seeks to isolate the individual from the imagined threats of collective religious belief convinces fewer and fewer people since the promised progress that was supposed to protect our planet is in fact putting it in peril. In our conclusion shows how in a Christian revelation we respond with a faith that accepts our vulnerability as inner honesty provides us with the courage to overcome all the deaths that Christ faced down on the cross.--Publisher.