Hiking on the Camino de Santiago, New Age, Feng Shui, and Angel Cult: The individual search for spirituality represents, as Hubert Knoblauch shows in this book, a new social form of the religious. At its core are special experiences of transcendence that are no longer confined to free church communities or esoteric circles, but reach deep into everyday culture. At the same time, churches today are also intentionally incorporating forms of popular culture, as evidenced by the Pope's appearances in the media. Hubert Knoblauch illuminates the entire spectrum of church, popular, and esoteric spirituality in the present. In light of this, he observes a fundamental transformation of religion that has led to the dissolution of the old boundaries between the sacred and the profane. The societal focal point of this change is the enhanced subject and its individual search for meaning.