RELIGIJA I SUMRAK SAVREMENOG SVETA
Religion and the twiglight of contemporary world

Author(s): Zoran Vidojević
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Politics and religion
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: religionization of politics; politicization of religion; survival drama; neoliberal capitalism; powerlessness of humanism
Summary/Abstract: The modern era is approaching its existential twilight. One of the important features of the twilight is the increasing religionization of politics and politicization of religion. These phenomena are not new, nor they represent the general concept of politics and religion around the world, but they are serious indicators of regressive processes, and continuity of the historical impotence of humanism and democracy. Religionization of politics has its climax in transforming the leader-master into the earthly god. The prospects of a free and righteous world, as well as the rise of morality in interpersonal relations are deteriorating. The "wild" sacred and degenerate profane are on the rise. Religiousness, democracy and human rights are surrounded by violence, killing, torture and persecution of a multitude of people, and also by crime. We are entering one of the most critical epochs of the post-modern era. "Risk", "uncertainty", "non-transparency" and "opacity" are too mild, actually inappropriate terms, to describe the situation. The certainty of the situation far exceeding this crisis is emerging. Many countries are fighting for survival. Neither philosophy, nor science, nor religion, and especially nor politics, in their predominant currents, can match the drama that is constantly growing and taking on the traits of a potential tragedy. Counter-processes are too weak, far away from being hegemonic. The underlying source of such a state is in the "jaws of the system" of global neoliberal and increasingly murderous capitalism. That kind of capitalism and both religious and profane ethics are incompatible.

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