religion

Karl Barth on Religion and Revelation

The author regards Karl Barth’s theology of religion as a re-creation on a new level of traditional motifs of Calvinist theology, caused by a reaction to rationalism and progressivism of the liberal Protestantism. Particular attention is paid to Karl Barth’s ideas of the relationship between religion (or natural religiosity of human being) and Christian revelation. These ideas are interpreted not in form of theological exclusivism, but as a more complex position that combines various elements of exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism.

The Conceptual Foundations of the Desecularization Theory

The paper attempts at achieving the conceptual understanding of the desecularization, the idea first proposed by Peter L. Berger in late 1990s. The idea still lacks theoretical elaboration as the sociology of religion is usually late in such theoretical enterprise; this paper tries to fill the gap. In doing so, the author starts with using categorical language of the secularization theory, which was developed in the course of the twentieth century. Yet he adds other theoretical frames and takes a new approach concentrating upon actors, patterns, regimes, and levels of desecularization.

Post-Secular Conceptualization of Religion: Formulating the Problem

The author develops a new conception of religion appropriate for modern post-secular conditions. In these conditions, neither secular model of religion, typical to Modernity, nor pre-secular understanding of religion / religiosity can be considered as fitting to socio-cultural reality. It is especially stressed that secular understanding of premodern religion distorts religion’s nature by allotting it a fixed and therefore limited place in line with the idea and practice of functional differentiation typical to European societies of the Modern age.

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