»Ich würd’ mir das offenlassen«: Agnostische Spiritualität als Annäherung an die »große Transzendenz« eines Lebens nach dem Tode
Based on interviews with East German families, the article develops the concept of »agnostic spirituality«. It describes the habit of maintaining the idea of transcendence in a more or less abstract manner, without filling it with specific religious substance. This habit is in conflict with the Chri...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Diagonal-Verlag
2012
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Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Year: 2005, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 153-174 |
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| Summary: | Based on interviews with East German families, the article develops the concept of »agnostic spirituality«. It describes the habit of maintaining the idea of transcendence in a more or less abstract manner, without filling it with specific religious substance. This habit is in conflict with the Christian hope for resurrection as well as with the definite cutting off of the idea of the hereafter by atheist materialism. The article works out several preliminary forms of such agnostic spirituality. They draw upon examples of extrasensory experience, near death experience, reincarnation, science fiction as well as upon scientific theories. Agnostic spirituality – in our view – is the attempt to rationally argue about the idea of life in the hereafter in a context that is deeply influenced by scientific rationality as well as by atheist scientism, but without referring to traditional religious beliefs. As such it indicates a process of secularization as well as one of desecularization. |
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| ISSN: | 2194-508X |
| Contains: | In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/zfr.2005.13.2.153 |