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Two Pivotal Epistemological Paradigm Changes: Mapping the Theoretical Frameworks. How can we re-locate Christianity as a reflexive agent in the historical and social context of the early 21st century? This chapter is concerned with the development of a conceptual framework that will enable a proper understanding of the contemporary modern world and of the place of religion within it. The research approach is based on two profound epistemological paradigm shifts: 1) from the modern and the postmodern to the post-postmodern,36 and 2) from the secular to the post- secular.37 First, the idea of the modern, a strand of intellectual life that dominated Western culture from the late 1970s, has run out of steam. Since the appearance of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx’x important book Modernity and Holocaust,38 36 The “post-postmodernity” concepts in the field of social science are numerous, diverse and rarely in full agreement with each other. In this study I mainly employ the post-postmodern constellation entailed in Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx’x concept of “re-modernities”.