Religia jako ideologia. Status religioznawstwa i problem transcendencji
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2012
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu
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Religion as an ideology. The status of religious studies and the issue of transcendence
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The paper attempts to expand and transform the religious notion of transcendence,
as well as the way in which religion is defined, which in Polish religious
studies is dominated by a denominational approach, where the social functions of religion
in particular (which according to academic religious studies determine the essential
character of a religion) are considered ‘non-specific,’ while the ‘specific’
functions are those that the religion itself assumes to be such. The paper states that
the essential character of religion goes beyond its social functions to encompass
broadly understood ideological functions. This claim is illustrated by an analysis of
the biblical story of the creation of the world and man, as this story demonstrates
that religion is a product of the biblical axiological dilemma interpreted from an authoritarian
viewpoint.
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Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, 2012, nr 1, s. 5-30.