This study examines the evolving landscape of worldviews, beliefs, and practices traditionally categorized as religion, exploring whether contemporary society is experiencing a "reenchantment". The concept challenges the notion of secularization as a linear decline in religiosity as well as the idea of a "return of religion", which views religion as a concise phenomenon.
The paper builds on empirical data from a representative survey on the Austrian population and discusses its findings against the arguments of representatives of different forms of the secularization thesis and their opponents. The empirical findings reveal a dynamic reconfiguration of fragments of what we used to call religion in diverse forms. Rather than Max Weber's idea of rationalization and devaluation of non-scientific ideas, we see a fragmented turn to magical elements, generalized transcendences such as the belief in "the universe" and other disintegrated facets of religious phenomena.