Revija za sociologiju, Vol. 22 No. 3-4, 1991.
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Socialist Feudalism, Postmodernism and Charismatic Religiosity (Part Two)
Jakov Jukić
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In part one of this work a description of the contemporary society’s development had been given moving from socialist feudalism and its downfall to the emergence of neoliberalism and postmodernism. Presently included in this social context is a description of the development of religiosity. Socialist feudalism is well suited by collectivist popular religiosity and its typical features. Postmodernism first brought forth charismatic religious belief expressed in the qualities of emotionality, material existence, irrationality, free choice in community and ecumenicity. Later, appearing in that same postmodern climate was individual religious belief which has slowly and with many of its runners reached nihilist religiosity. This sacral nihilism is manifested in apathy, indifference, emptiness of the short-lived and in the spectacularization of the experience of the sacred It has been none other than the New Age movement that attempted to gather together all these scattered postmodern ideas and find justification for the society of individualism and privacy.
Finally, it turned out that the ideology of gnosis is present in all forms of today’s society — from socialist feudalism to postmodernism and the new religiosity — of which the New Age movement is an extension. That is why this new ideology enterprise attempts the impossible: to renew by means of gnosis, again, the world which fell apart or is falling apart due to gnosis, and this cannot result in anything else but a quicker downfall which has already begun in the third nihilistic postmodern period.
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31.12.1991.
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