Reconsidering Theoretical Approaches to New Religious Movements and their Surrounding Phenomena
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Tartalom: https://doktori.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/12395/
Archívum: SZTE Doktori Értekezések Repozitórium
Gyűjtemény: Tudományterületek = Bölcsészettudományok: Vallástudományok
Típus = Disszertáció
Cím:
Reconsidering Theoretical Approaches to New Religious Movements and their Surrounding Phenomena
Létrehozó:
Nemes Márk
Dátum:
2025-02-27
Téma:
06.03. Filozófia, etika és vallástudományok
06.03.04. Vallástudományok
06.03.04.02. Kultúrakutatás, kulturális sokféleség
Tartalmi leírás:
In his dissertation, the author aims to refresh and revise the Scottish phenomenologist Ninian Smart's 1996 morphology of religion. In doing so, the author extends Smart's multidimensional framework to contemporary emergent, new, alternative, quasi-, and para-religious phenomena, which he treats collectively under the umbrella term 'new religiosity.' Taking the social processes of the 1960s in the West as a point of departure, the author analyses them from philosophical, historical, social-psychological, and phenomenological perspectives and points out the factors which - in his opinion - could have led to the fundamental transformation of contemporary postmodern religiosity. The author also draws on the contexts and critiques of theories of religion, such as the secularization paradigm, the religious market model, pluralism, the culture of individualism in opposition to collectivism, and the crisis of meaning and identity of spiritual statelessness to support his argument. He also outlines five strategies that have emerged in the sphere of the new religiosity to address this crisis. Using elements of Foucault's discourse theory, the author also points to unresolved questions concerning the terminology of New Religions Studies (NRS) and takes a stand on the methodologies as well as conceptual tools he considers appropriate, thereby also defining his own - inter- or even transdisciplinary - viewpoint. Applying the seven-dimensional model to new religiosity - interpreting each dimension as a pair of interacting "lenses" - the author highlights the basic morphological features of the phenomenon under discussion and, on the basis of these, refines Smart's otherwise outstanding framework. He illustrates the validity of his observations with brief case studies and concludes by pointing to the inherently religious character of the cultural anthropological construct of homo religiosus. Defining religiosity as an anthropological constant, he concludes his dissertation with the thesis that, for the disciplines dealing with religiosity, new religious phenomena are just as essential subjects as their 'historical' counterparts and the two seemingly separated fields shall be examined as a whole.
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Disszertáció
NonPeerReviewed
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Azonosító:
Nemes Márk Reconsidering Theoretical Approaches to New Religious Movements and their Surrounding Phenomena. Doktori értekezés, Szegedi Tudományegyetem (2000-). (2025)
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