New Religiosity, Posmodern Age and Post-Materialistic Values
New Religiosity, Posmodern Age and Post-Materialistic Values

Author(s): Neven V. Cvetićanin, Ivana Arsic
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: postmodern age; post-materialistic values; identity; new devotion; new scientific paradigms; the time of new enchantment
Summary/Abstract: This paper examines one of the most significant structural changes brought about by post-modern age compared with classical modernism. This structural change can be identified in the eruption of so-called post materialistic values that are evident in the very core ideology of post-modernity; the need for belonging and identity. What results is the creation of new post-modern identities as combinations of traditional forms of identities and emerging forms which were being discovered at the time. The eruption of post materialistic values is witnessed also by the accord between civil (democratic) society and conventional religions after World War II, which gives a new post-modern identity to the epoch. Apart from social movements, research results of so-called positive, or natural sciences, contributed greatly to the promotion of post materialistic values. This new, concrete reality of science in practice is manifested in two new modern paradigmsgeneral relativity and quantum mechanics. This paper will finally reach the conclusion that the era of new post-modern «enchantment» is reflected in the phenomenon of post materialistic values and is opposite to Weber’s modernistic «un enchantment» (Entzauberung) of reality.

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