Original scientific paper
THE FALL OF SOCIALlSM AND THE PROFANATION OF THE WORLD
Johannes Weiss
; Kassel University, Kassel
Abstract
This text deal s with the relationship between the fall of socialism
and the profanation of the world. Its basic thesis is that "real" socialism
truly and significantly influenced change in the whole world. It
had a cultural purport and effective influence on the repression of
religion, similar to the process of secularization in Western societies.
This political order, however, was far less successful in the attempt
to impose upon the religious-ecclesiastical system a new integrative
("scientific", i.e. ideological) system of viewpoints and morality.
This unsuccessful attempt, contrary to possible theoretical expectations'
did not bring about a strengthening of religious life, but
quite the opposite. What had occurred was a deep disillusionment
and the loss of interest for all supernatural, for all that transcends
the existing world.
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Hrčak ID:
32242
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Publication date:
1.11.1995.
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