Contemporary Moral Cultures and “The Return of the Sacred”
Both secularization and sacralization processes occur in the moral cultures of the present-day world. Moral cultures must provide practical guidance in reducing suffering and advancing human potentialities and symbolic authority arising from an ability to fuse a grasp of social reality with visions...
| Published in: | Sociological analysis |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1988
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Sociological analysis
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| Summary: | Both secularization and sacralization processes occur in the moral cultures of the present-day world. Moral cultures must provide practical guidance in reducing suffering and advancing human potentialities and symbolic authority arising from an ability to fuse a grasp of social reality with visions of what is lacking in it. Responses to this dual need take place within the symbolic structures of particular civilizations in which relationships between the “sacred” and the “secular” (or, in a second model, between the unity of “religion” and the comprehensiveness of “culture”) have acquired different but relatively enduring shapes. Neither secular nor religious traditions can, in the world of global interdependencies, be sufficient in responding to both the imaginative and the practical needs of humanity. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3711585 |