Two Experiences of Sociability, Christian and Secular
Two Experiences of Sociability, Christian and Secular

Summary/Abstract: Traditional human communities were constructed on the basis of socio-cosmicmatrices of exchange (ancestors, agricultural fertility, kinship exchange, macro ormicro-cosmic correspondences, all cyclical in some sense). The exchange of valueswithin these diverse “sociabilities” bound their communities together, not preventingthem to wage wars and make peace on the basis of a common cosmology. In many partsof the world the advent of the nation state put a partial end to the shared social morphologyof traditional communities and thus was effected the destruction of their hierarchies ofvalues. Was Christianity partially responsible for this incoherence. Has secularism cutsus off from these horizons of transcendence?

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