Religijsko pripadanje s aspekta čovjeka i ljudske zajednice
Religious Conviction From The Aspect of Man and the Human Situation

Summary/Abstract: The influence of religion is limited by the level of identification, or need which varies (in this respect) from orthodoxy to indifference and atheism. If religion satisfies only some needs, i. e. if for the satisfaction of other needs other forms of experience are adequate, then there is no interaction. If, for example, through religious definitions man »channels a supernatural force« to help him in certain biological changes (birth, marriage, etc) then man does not extend God's power to other life situations — for these other forms of experience are sufficient, adequate or more convenient. It all depends, then, on the definition which man gives of religion — on what it means to him, what he identifies with in it. what he needs it for. If we ask why there is religion even though it gives illusory solutions, the answer should be sought in concrete social conditions and structures, or in the social and psychological boundaries of individual forms of experience and this, because the very structure of human needs, human rationality, depends on them, as do many personality traits and also human social and psychological identification, or the determination of the coordinates (natural, historical, social, psychological, cognitional and valuable) of man's experience.

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