Religious syncretism and the manifestations of the sacred in an Age of Globalisation

Sociology

Abstract

The lecture treatment some aspects of the new forms of religious sycretism and the new social paradigm. The lecture analysis the consequences in the field of religions of the transformation of Europe (the fall of the Berlin Wall, dissolution of the Soviet Union, disintegration of Yugoslavia) and the reconstruction of Europe, escort with strong tecnological development. The religious field it self become globalistic and his caracteristic is hard syncretism. In the forms of religious believes reemerge new form of gnosis, strong individualism, teological questions of Gods incarnation and considerable large distance from Church. The western society in the age of globalism is also moving away from historical context of time and have much few links with tradition. The lecture attempt to evidence a typological classification of some post modern religious categories, like personal experience, subjective spirituality, deterritorialism and the manifestations of sacred in the form of individual gnosis.