Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.16.3.6
The Relationship of Totalitarian Reflection of the Post-modern era to Religion
Vlaho Kovačević
orcid.org/0000-0001-8247-3941
; Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Lea Milošić
; Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Dino Rušinović
orcid.org/0000-0002-1087-8488
; Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
This paper raises the sociological problem of religious orientation in relation to political correctness with the aim of achieving post-modern era to religion. Historically, the problems of totalitarianism and the tendency of religion to fall into the totalitarian social concept are lost in history, thus losing their eschatological and spiritual essence and thus antipodal to the political, as has been the case in modern history. Trying to show the different ways in which religion is studied and still being studied, we give an advantage to understanding and analysing political correctness toward religious orientation as necessary within the phenomenological-hermeneutic circle of religious vision. The essence of this analysis critically deepens the religious (and every other) phenomenon and does not allow it to fall only to the immanent sociological level of the system of religion, and especially to the system of politics which, despite the political correctness of ‘posh-modern politics’, has an immanent and so limited vision. The conceptual instrument of totalitarianism in this paper is primarily analysed by referring to authors who sociologically and philosophically analyse the problems of modern and postmodern, especially the relation of religion and political correctness in the context of ‘neo – totalitarianism’. Thus, the paper analyses the sociological path to the ‘openness’ of the postmodern in the context of social theorists of “understandable sociology” of Max Weber, the earliest members of the Chicago sociological department, Thomas William, postmodern Jeana-Françoise Lyotard, Frankfurt’s School of Critical Theory, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Jürgen Habermas.
Keywords
modern period; political correctness; post-modern era; religion; totalitarianism
Hrčak ID:
209166
URI
Publication date:
21.11.2018.
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