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Consumerist Characteristics of Today’s Syncretic-Eclectic Spirituality
Maja DRAGUN
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Sažetak
This article deals with the spirituality of the western world –
which bears the mark of religious eclecticism and syncretism,
universal mysticism, psychological pattern, the new age and
new culture concepts and the periodically expressed links
with the natural-scientific point of view – but on a very
superficial level. Such spirituality is generally accessible,
popularised and commercialised – and is often reduced to
instant enlightenment which can be bought with money, but
also retains some elements of mystical initiations. The
consumerist present has erased the discrepancy between the
material and spiritual – thus making spirituality just as much
commercialised as for example food, clothing, travel,
transport, beauty or status are. Such spirituality therefore has
consumerist characteristics, and can be said to represent "a product on the spiritual market". The subject of analysis in
this article was not spirituality connected with traditional
religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) – but the syncretic-
-eclectic patterns of self-development, psychologised
spirituality signified by the concept of new age (1970s-
-1980s) and postmodern spirituality (since the 1990s). The
spirituality addressed here makes use of elements of different
religions and mysticisms in creating syntheses with a specific
syncretic structure – and basically represents a personal point
of view. This is individualist spirituality – which distinguishes it
from all the previous spiritual and religious patterns, and
also contains attributes of the liberalist viewpoint,
cosmopolitan religiosity and pluralist culture.
Ključne riječi
syncretism; eclecticism; spirituality; point of view; new age; individualism; self-development; mysticism; consumerism; pluralism
Hrčak ID:
31149
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2008.
Posjeta: 3.537 *