Zmiany w obrębie religijności — między sklepem a nową narracją

• Authors: Eryk Pieszak

Title variants

EN

CHANGES IN THE FIELD OF RELIGIOUSNESS—BETWEEN THE SHOP AND THE NEW NARRATION

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Within the confines of the research on the consumptive society, i.e. the one where various needs of individuals are satisfied by one activity type—the purchase of goods—opinions and interpretations appear that point out similarities between consumerism and religious actions. The following article is an attempt to find those similarities or to show that they are groundless. The result of the analyses is the statement that consumerism can be compared to religion or that you can find some similar functions in both of them, although only in the context of the social affiliation, faith in symbols, herd instinct, answer to no possibility of finding any hope and blind subordination. Thus, consumerism is similar to some myth organizing reality and not to religion in the sense of individual’s freedom accomplishment in the context of transcendence.

Keywords

EN

CONSUMPTIVE SOCIETY; CONSUMERISM; RELIGIOUS ACTIONS; RELIGION

• Publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza Epigram
• Journal: Sensus Historiae. Studia interdyscyplinarne
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 2(7)
• Pages: 115-132

Contributors

author

Eryk Pieszak