Qualifying Secular Sacralizations
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.v15i4.533Keywords:
implicit religion, non-religion, secularity/secularization, sacralizationAbstract
We propose a model for qualifying the experiences that people have with “free floating objects and events of religion.” The theories of implicit religion or nonreligion do not offer such a refinement. With the help of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age we conceptualize both religion and secularity in a positive way. Using Meerten ter Borg’s theory, we distinguish within the secular field three degrees of religiosity that are rather near to religion in the strict sense: (1) functional equivalents of religion, (2) moments of sacralization, and (3) fragments of sacralization. Some examples and analogies confirm the adequacy of this model.References
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