La Rocca, Tommaso
La transformation du christianisme dans la société occidentale - selon Max Adler
Christianity underwent two fundamental transformations over the course of the centuries: one which saw it change from a "popular religion" into an "ideology of power", a religion of the dominant classes, and the other, its change "from religion to church", meaning from a private, interior religion into an exterior, public religion, from a religion of conscience into a dogmatic religion. Furthermore, these two transformations are interrelated. The first is the most familiar and its analysis has been amply elaborated by Marxist thinkers (especially Engels, Kautsky, Gramsci and Bloch). Study of the second transformation is newer and more interesting. The Austrian Marxist, Max Adler, anticipating the secularizing interpretations of Christianity proposed by historians and sociologists of the post-Second World War period, formulated the law of "increasing ecclesiasticization" and of dogmatization corresponding with a "decreasing religiosity". Yet the religious death of Christianity does not necessarily signal the destiny of private religion, of pure interior consciousness, which on the contrary will be reborn with renewed vitality out of the dogmatic and mythological ashes of Christianity. But, outside of traditional churches, where and how?
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[author] La Rocca, Tommaso |
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Religione
Adler, Max,
Religion
Adler, Max, |
