Is There Such a Thing as "Religion"?: In Search of the Roots of Spirituality
That there exists something like religion seems self-evident. Anthropologists, we are told, have discovered that all cultures have a religion of some kind. But what is "religion"? If we trace the concept to its origins in religio , we see that our current definition of the term is consider...
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| 520 | |a That there exists something like religion seems self-evident. Anthropologists, we are told, have discovered that all cultures have a religion of some kind. But what is "religion"? If we trace the concept to its origins in religio , we see that our current definition of the term is considerably different. The Latin term religio has to do with virtue or fulfilling one’s obligations to one’s family and community. It has nothing immediately to do with gods, the supernatural, and the afterlife. In contrast, "religion" - something to do with a kind of belief or faith - took about a millennium to take shape. At stake here is a distinction that continues to grow in importance with the increasing number of "nones," people who consider themselves "non-religious" but are sometimes willing to label themselves "spiritual." Such a distinction is only meaningful to the extent there is a difference. My paper begins by establishing the nature and the scope of the question. Then I consider Husserl’s idea of returning to the origin - the Ursprung . In effect, Husserl’s quest can be considered an archaeology. Yet an archaeology of religion or even "spirituality" turns out to be impossible. In light of that, I ask: Is there something like primordial religion - something that we could likewise experience today? I suggest that we can find it in Plato, Aristotle, and Kant - an awe or wonder in face of the complexity of the universe. William Cantwell Smith speaks of "the archaic meaning of religio as that awe that men felt in the presence of an uncanny and dreadful power of the unknown." That awe in religio and philosophy seem to be fundamentally the same. But, if that is the case, then the distinction between "religious" and "spiritual" may not have any real basis. | ||
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