Conference paper
Religious Variations
Nikola Dugandžija
; Centar za društvena istraživanja, Zagreb
Abstract
Religion not only appears in those subjects which are defined as supernatural variables, but also includes those objects, relationships and values which man designates as exceptional in relation to the rest of the world. Sacrosanct concepts extend to science the nation, leaders, the time dimension, but not to all that which at a given moment by its aureole should add to the life of the quality which profane life does not assure and to which people cannot reconcile certain characteristics. The products of such creative imagination become living reality among believers of this type and lead to consequences which do not have only imaginary character. When a so-conceived belief is connected whit destructive inclinations, then it calls forth tragic consequences in the lives of people. Religious faith in profane values represents a »roundabout way« by means of which one tries to reach a desirable subject. The task of society, particularly, of socialist society, is to try to find a more worthy valuation and formation of the world which will not be left so much to chance as classical and other forms of religion have until now represented.
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156120
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Publication date:
30.6.1978.
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