Original scientific paper
The "return of the Holy" and/or the anti-secularisational "rebellion" in the work of Željko Mardešić
Stipe Tadić
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Abstract
While numerous sociologists of religion dealt in our region in the past
decades with secularisation and its triumphal course, as well as with the "disappearance and dying" of religion, only Željko Mardešić (alias Jakov Jukić) spoke about the Return od the Holy (1988) and the Future of religion (1991). In the integral space of today's religion, in the Church and outside of it, a new type of believer appears who tries in the direct experience of divine to come in touch with the holy. The contemporary religion and religiosity appear as a personal and subjective religious experience which opens to men the presentiment of the Absolutely Other. The contemporary reliogious "revival", considers Mardešić, first of all a protest against the excessive: secularity of the world, but the protests against religious institutions as well give birth, as a rule, to new religions, regardless of whether it is question od secularisation of the society or/and ecclesiastic institutions. New religious movement, according to Mardešić, are an expression of disappointment of the secular man with the radical secularity of the world. New ecclesiastic movements, most of all the charismatic one(s) in Christianism, are an expression of disappointment of believers not only with this excessive secularity of the world but also with the secularity of their (traditional) religious institutions which "conclude pacts" with such a world.
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Publication date:
23.6.2008.
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