Patterns of Modernity: Christianity, Occidentalism and Islam

• Authors: Christian Tămaş
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The shift of interest from community to individuality and freedom brought by modernity challenged the central place once occupied by religion, pushing it to the outskirts of human life. All these led to an increased indifference towards any transcendental guarantor that could act in a neutral reason-governed space. In the case of Islam, such a situation is impossible to tolerate, because it would mean God’s desecration by reducing the Qur’an to the statute of a simple book like many others that offer an opinion on a Supreme Being who does not decide the destiny of humanity any more, but becomes a simple matter of opinion. While Western Christianity adjusted to modernity reaching even to justify the developments which led to a dissolution of sacred, stating that they were consistent with its essence, Islam accepted modernity only to the extent of this one’s capacity to verify the realities stated by the Qur’an.

Keywords

EN

Christianity; Islam; Islamism; Occidentalism; society

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human and Social Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 139-148

Dates

published

2012-10-01

online

2012-11-09

Contributors

author

Christian Tămaş

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10317-012-0008-z