DRUŠTVENO-POVIJESNI I SOCIORELIGIJSKI ČIMBENICI I GENEZA EKLEZIJALNIH POKRETA
SOCIOHISTORICAL AND SOCIORELIGIOUS FACTORS AND THE GENESIS OF ECCLESIASTICAL MOVEMENTS

Summary/Abstract: In the text the author discusses the historical-cultural and socioreligious factors of the emergence of new ecclesiastical movements. The phenomenon of the (post)-modern church-religious revival is situated into a broader sociohistorical and socio-religious context The radicalization and radicalism of secularization and secularism of the contemporary world enhances in principal new and unquenchable quests (for experiencing) "something quite different". New ecclesiastical (and religious) movements are merely the most radical and obvious examples of such quests. It is a noted fact that religion and religiosity, despite their numerous specific traits, are not phenomena isolated from society, social processes, cultural and civilizational achievements of human history. However, in addition to the aforementioned sensitivity to social, cultural, civilizational and other factors in society, religion and religiosity indicate a high degree of resilience to "outside" factors and generators of change in society, becoming, more often than not, a reaction to them.

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