Defining the Sacred in a Secular Age. Émile Durkheim’s versus Philip Rieff’s Theories of Sacred and Social Orders Cover Image

Losy sacrum w „świeckiej epoce”. Émile Durkheim versus Philip Rieff o „sakralnym” i „świeckim porządku”
Defining the Sacred in a Secular Age. Émile Durkheim’s versus Philip Rieff’s Theories of Sacred and Social Orders

Author(s): Magdalena Lubańska
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: sacrum; socjocentryzm; kryptototeologie; postsekularyzm; the sacred; sociocentrism; crypto-theologies; postsecularism

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines epistemologically contradicting backgrounds of Emile Durkheim’s and Philip Rieff ’s theories of the sacred. Tension between Durkheim’s sociocentric and Rieff ’s neo-ontological assumptions of this concept is used as an explanatory frame for analysing the “post- -secular” turn taking place in contemporary social sciences.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 215-233
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish