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The Dissenter · 2026-06-05 · 64 min · 7,710 words

#1263 Carl-Johan Palmqvist: Semi-Secular Worldviews and the Belief in Something Beyond

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Carl Johan Palmquist. He's a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at Lund University, and today we're talking about his book, Semi-Secular Worldviews and the belief in something beyond.

So Dr. Palmqvist, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to everyone. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me.

It's uh it's really fun to be here and I uh look forward to our conversation. Likewise. So uh could you start by telling us a little bit about the premise of your book and and what got you interested in these kinds of topics as a philosopher? Well, uh the book is um a philosophical take on the contemporary worldviews which are neither traditionally religious or atheist but somewhere somewhere in between and we call them semi-secular and another name for that is spiritual but not religious.

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