Granì (Feb 2016)

Ratio of secularization and modernization: statement of the problem

  • Yuliia Y. Medviedieva

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 3(131)

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In the article the problem of balance of secularization and modernization. Desecration of religion, according to the author, is the main element of the modernization project, the result of which is the spread of secular rationality of theoretical knowledge in social technologies and social-regulatory system, in particular – to the legal system, constitution, democracy, civil society, human rights, etc.., corresponding neoteologie scientism as a strategy to modernize the traditional society through scientific knowledge in the context of desecration of religious ethics and decomposition of the institutional framework in the form of the Catholic church. Along with modernization discourse scientistic interpretation neoteologie formed other uses of implicit clerical discourse for direct or indirect formulation of alternative programs kontrmodernizatsiyi that somehow is connected with the (partial or complete) reproduction sakralizovanosti traditional society in pagan religions. Here it is, in particular, antropolatrychni cult heroes in the ideologies of fascism and communism, which, against the desecration of Christianity can be called kontrmodernizatsiynymy resakralizatsiyamy paganism. These versions religions and ideologies emphasizing certain elements of social modernization in in their scenarios introduced in the social context of the facade features of modern society, which is protected traditional society. The whole range of projects kontrmodernizatsiyi, despite his claims to be a continuation of the ideology of the Enlightenment and bourgeois conformity formal features, compared to secular programs becomes a substitute of neomessianic eschatology genetically going to marginalized social movements in Europe that have evolved in parallel with secularization.

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