RELIGION AND THE FUNCTIONING OF MODERN SOCIETY
RELIGION AND THE FUNCTIONING OF MODERN SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: The religious factor is the element with the longest continuity in the whole spectrum of the social space. The combination of various practices in everyday life with mystical habits and later with institutionalized forms of faith has contributed to the formation of a strong bond between man and divinity interceded by the religious institution. This has enabled the formation of powerful social systems (states, empires) led through a religious system-dependent normative system. The end of the eighteenth century produced the first re-establishment of the society of new norms of coexistence that were based on new principles distinct from those on which the states had functioned up to that point. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries represent a period of contrasts characterized by a strenuous struggle of the state’s detachment towards the church.

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