The Eclipse of Religion and Freud’s “future of an illusion”

• Authors: Franco Ferrarotti

Abstracts

EN

The main contention of this paper is that, no matter whether one is a true believer or a professed atheist, religion remains a relevant social phenomenon. Serious scholars have written about an eclipse of the sacred in industrial societies through a sad confusion between «sacred» and «religious». The «religious» as a commodity administered by an organized church might well be in a state of crisis. But the «sacred» is actually the meta-human element that makes mankind exist and develop beyond the so-called «laws» of the market

Keywords

EN

religion; sacred; Meta-human factor; market laws; church religion.

• Publisher: Academicus. International Scientific Journal publishing house
• Journal: Academicus. International Scientific Journal
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 29
• Pages: 10-20

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

Franco Ferrarotti

• La Sapienza University, Italy. Founder "Critica Sociologica"

• https://orcid.org/0000000349645371

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7336/academicus.2024.29.01

Biblioteka Nauki

23587321