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The sacred that is not. About immanentist religions in modern world
Stipe Tadić
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The paper deals with the religion/religious situation in modern society and religious changes and metamorphoses of the religious content and forms of appearance in the last decades. It mainly deals with the turnabout from the secularisation processes and the »demise of the sacred« in modern society and socially »invisible religion« to the »return of the sacred«, its rediscovery and the revitalisation of the religious. From the absolute and radical secularisation to the unforeseen return of the religious, and not only in the personal interior and privacy of a person but also in the social scene of post-modern society. The basic defining point of religion and the religious is seen in the transcendence of the sacred, whereas worldly beliefs and secular religions only feature (external) appearance forms of religion. They lack the essential content of the religious, while in their metamorphoses for various worldly purposes and benefits they only put on the appearance of the religious. Secular religions and worldly beliefs, consequently, absolutise what is not absolute, they believe in the sacred that is not. Absolutising what in its content is essentially secular, ideological, worldly can lead to dictatorship and totalitarism. Even if it is just a dictatorship of relativism.
Ključne riječi
sacred; religious changes; secularisation; desecularisation; return of the sacred; worldly religions
Hrčak ID:
74607
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Datum izdavanja:
25.11.2011.
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