ŽILAVOST RELIGIJE I (JOŠ) NEISPUNJENA PROROČANSTVA
THE TOUGHNESS OF RELIGION AND (STILL) UNFULFILLED PROPHECIES

Summary/Abstract: Ever since the Age of the Enlightenment, reason and science have been promoted as the basis of a guide to mankind, while parallely predicting that religious ideas would atrophy and disappear in dealing with superior scientific conceptions and explanations. Sigmund Freud is one of the thinkers who took over the flame from the torchbearers of the Enlightenment. He considered the religious representations to be illusions, and hoping in the ability of mankind to adapt, he wrote that mankind would succeed in overcoming its infantile (religious) phase. For much of the twentieth century the death of the religion was the conventional wisdom of social sciences, and it seemed that Freud was right, but with realization that secularization was more an assumption than an empirical fact, came to the thought that some predictions would not come true and that religion was more tough than first thought. Because of various negative effects, religion has been explicitly rejected and suppressed by many societies over the past centuries, but would revive after a certain period, and to some extent regain importance in society, and these oscillations concerning the vitality of the religion in this period discourage optimistic predictions/prophecies such as Freud’s was.

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