Rethinking Cultural Relations between the European Union and United States in Age of the Transatlantic Rift

In the present article I intend to raise the issue of the relevance of religion and religiosity in the light of the transatlantic drift and of the cultural integration in the UE. The reawakening of religiousness, either Christian or Islamic demonstrates the appearance of a new cultural map of Western world, due to the consequences of globalization, cultural relativism, present-day economic crisis, military or terrorist threats. Underlining the politicization of religion and its different traits in the US and the UE, not forgetting about Romanian post communist religiosity, the article attempts to define the degree according to which religion in the twenty-first century might affect and possibly change Western modernity.