Of course a futurology is to be avoided...

Of course a futurology is to be avoided, in particular a futurology of the spiritual, but one cannot help asking also whether culture might change. The fact is that, barring the Sunday ‘godslot,’ and ‘televangelism’ - that is TV channels paid for by religious organisations and found mainly in the USA - the cultural outpourings of the west through TV, cinema, journals, newspapers, novels and other media, portray an intensely secular worldview.

Portrayals of the spiritual are either through worn-out and faintly embarrassed stereotypes of the presecular religions, or they fall into the X-Files…