Religion For ThoughtSince the last decade of the twentieth century, there has been talk of a return of religion in Western societiesthe very societies that were regarded by many people as undergoing an irreversible process of secularisation. Paul Ricoeur's philosophical writings on religion are contemporaneous with this movement of secularisation and return, while at the same time his work complicates the schema. In Ricoeur's view, religion is part of the universe of