Modern religious discourse. Between Christian memory and contemporary forgetting Cover Image

Discursul religios modern. Între memoria creștină și uitarea contemporană
Modern religious discourse. Between Christian memory and contemporary forgetting

Author(s): Ioan Nicolae Pop
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: Discourse; religion; language; faith; memory;

Summary/Abstract: We propose an overview of some aspects related to the religious discourse manifested within the Romanian Orthodox faith, as well as a brief inventory of the activity of some theological figures that are present, by preaching, in the public space. Language closes or dissipates interpersonal relationships, it can be seen that society revolves around discourse. In the sphere of religion develops an appetite for the text expressed as preaching in meeting contemporary challenges, since from the pulpit a desecration of society is demanded, an alienation of man from God and implicitly a perversion of the good. Modern theological discourse probes the memory of Christian values, values that it translates into modernity with the stated purpose of avoiding the conversion of the sacred into the profane. It is noted that the Covid-19 phenomenon produced not only an alienation between fellows, but also an abandonment in forgetting the divinity (but not generalizing). So, religious discourse, in some places, comes as a boomerang for the disoriented religious public.

  • Issue Year: IX/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 148-154
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian