Professional paper
Sociological viewpoint of Željko Mardešić's phenomenological framework of popular religion
Vlaho Kovačević
orcid.org/0000-0001-8247-3941
; Sveučilište u Splitu, Filozofski fakultet
Abstract
Introducing phenomenological approach to sociology of religion, Mardešić is aware that every interpretation of popular religion and religiosity is influenced by the interpreter’s pre-interpretation. In his approach to popular religion, Mardešić unites and matches the subject and object of popular religion, thus trying to encompass the personal world of life experience of popular religion's active participants, seeing it from their perspective. Yet, he cannot do this completely and indirectly, which results in an inevitable hermeneutical circle as an approach to interpretation, which reveals and shows an internal hidden relationship among certain sociological theories of religion. Revealing an internal hidden relationship between politological market and invisible sociological theory of religion, he tries to show them in their logical sequence, starting from the hypothesis on their own scientificity towards the critique of other's ideology. At the same time, he uses analytical means to prepare shock-statements in interpretation of sociological theories of religion in the first part of hermeneutical circle. In the second part of hermeneutical circle, Mardešić finds an internal hidden relationship among the implicit, diffuse, popular religion as well as new religious movements and sects trying to show them in their logical sequ
Keywords
search for the sacred; hermeneutical circle; phenomenology and sociology of religion; popular religion; characteristics of the sacred
Hrčak ID:
192662
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Publication date:
21.12.2017.
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