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REFLECTIONS ON SOCIETY WITHOUT RELIGION: ALBANIA'S CASE
Denis R. Janz
; Sveučilište Loyola, New Orleans
Sažetak
ln analyzing the process of secularization in modern societies, the
author proposes the hypothesis about society without religion and
presents his arguments by problematizing Albania's case. The extremely
high degree of secularization of Albanian society is a consequence
of hyper-Stallinism - the ideology of the former communist
regime, the result of the regime's policy of extreme isolationism, and
finally of brutal repression towards religious people and institutions.
By analyzing the mentioned causes of the disappearance of religion
in Albania, the author notices that even after the fall of communism
and the democratization of Albanian society, and inspite of religious
propaganda of different confessions, the renewal of religious life
has not occured. Due to the fact that the process of advanced secularization
is not only evident in these countries, which are subject
to anti-religious propaganda and repression, but also in some western
democratic countries, the author, based on these facts, questions
the essence of religion and secularization and the place of these
phenomena in human nature and society in general.
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Hrčak ID:
32244
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Datum izdavanja:
1.11.1995.
Posjeta: 2.571 *