THE RELIGION OF SOVEREIGNITY, PROGRESS, UTOPIA AND EMANCIPATION
THE RELIGION OF SOVEREIGNITY, PROGRESS, UTOPIA AND EMANCIPATION

Summary/Abstract: It is customary to conceive of modernity and present-day age as being completely secularized, as being free from religion. Is not quite right. Man’s religiosity has found other ways to manifest itself. Equating Christianity with religion, or Islam or Hinduism with it is wrong. Religion is a much complex phenomenon then one may think, and it still present and alive in the life of humanity even in the 21th century. There are many ways in which the religious element of human life express itself, and these expressions are not bound with the idea of God or of god. This paper, based mainly upon the insights that can be found in the work of Jacques Ellul, Pierre-Andre Taguieff is based upon the presupposition that the man is still a religious being, and that the nowadays pervading religions can be found in different ideologies like communism, the so-called social justice, liberalism transhumanism. The paper tries to present four concepts that express the modern transideological religion. These concepts are emancipation, progress, utopia, sovereignty. They belong together and they relate to each other.

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