Review article
Religious movements in the work of Željko Mardešić - sociality of „homo religiosus”
Vine Mihaljević
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Abstract
The work discusses the topic „Religious movements in the work of Željko Mardešić – the sociality of „homo religiosus”. Religious movements are the subject of analysis in Mardešić’s works Religion in Industrial Society, The Return of the Sacred, The Future of Religion, Face and Masks of the Sacred and The Cleft in the Sacred. In the mentioned works religious movements are defined sociologically as sects in industrial society, as a form of awakening popular piety in the full secularization of society, as new sects i.e. new religious movements that are the holders of the sacred in modernism as well as a new religion and religiosity in post-modernism. Phenomenologically, religious movements are the social expression of man’s religious experience of the sacred that is based on the primal longing, desire, thirst for the sacred. On the basis of chronological and descriptive analysis of Mardešić’s works, the first part presents his understanding of religious movements, while the second part is about his essential phenomenological approach to religious movements. In this text the term „religious movements” is used in the sense of every social expression of religious experience based on a permanent human longing for the sacred having in mind Mardešić’s mentioned opus.
Keywords
Željko Mardešić/Jakov Jukić; sociology of religion; phenomenology of religion; religious movements
Hrčak ID:
192661
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Publication date:
21.12.2017.
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