Sekulariseringens betydning - og religionens beskaffenhed i Danmark i dag

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Abstract

Taking stocks of research and debate on religion and secularization this contribution promotes Charles Taylor's understanding of life in secular society as a historically developed situation where people in the West live under cross pressure from competing horizons of meaning and beliefs. Therefore for most people existential orientation has become ambivalent and fluctuating. This again implies that the question of religion is not a simple matter of choosing between different options but an ongoing struggle for existential orientation in an ever changing social, communicative and emotional context. In daily life the Danes, independent of their individual faith, live quietly as if there is no God. At other times, e.g. when struck by life threatening illness, the same people are struggling to find a way in their ambivalent and fluctuating existential orientation. This new character of religion today calls for reconsideration of the methods in the study of religion today.

Original languageDanish
JournalReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift
Issue number58
Pages (from-to)33-49
Number of pages16
ISSN0108-1993
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Faculty of Theology

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