{"id":2466,"date":"2022-11-10T16:32:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T16:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axsonjohnsonfoundation.org\/?post_type=seminar&p=2466"},"modified":"2022-11-13T14:57:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T14:57:25","slug":"2001-the-future-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"seminar","link":"https:\/\/axsonjohnsonfoundation.org\/sv\/seminarier\/2001-the-future-of-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"2001: The Future of Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Why does religion matter? Many answers have been put forth including that it grounds values, creates purpose and gives meaning in an ontological sense to our existence. Often science turns religious experience into an epiphenomenon but unfortunately offers nothing in return. How can modern society deal with this deficit of meaning? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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The position of religion in the Western world today presents a contradictory picture. On the one hand there are many indications of a far-reaching secularisation having taken place. Traditional religions are in many places losing adherents and common knowledge of tradition is diminishing.<\/p>\n

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Has the individual, in religion as in other matters, become an individualistic, \u201ccherry-picking\u201d consumer? There are indications that the hectic pace of the information society and its insistence on flexibility probably are transforming the conditions governing religious experience.<\/p>\n

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Man\u2019s increasing progression, through science and technology, from being created to himself becoming a creator, is probably also impacting on his relation to religion. On the other hand, it is arguable that secularisation is a myth. Perhaps people today believe in other things and in other ways and possibly this really implies a revitalisation of religious life.<\/p>\n

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Now, just as previously, there is a great need of meaning and coherence and the discrediting of the political utopias, which in many ways were substitute religions, has put religion back in focus again. Science is triumphant but apparently has little to say about the meaning of existence and the nature of good and evil, even though it sometimes takes on an element of religious conviction itself.<\/p>\n

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The new choices confronting us, for example due to the development of biotechnology, are perhaps making the normative system of religion still more important. There are fears today of Western societies being fragmented, partly because they are no longer held together by common convictions and norms, and religion is perhaps necessary as an integrating force.<\/p>\n

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At the same time religion is obviously contributing towards fragmentation by giving rise to sects and fundamentalist movements. How can religious convictions be united with the pluralism of modern society and its insistence on respect for dissidents? Will the fundamentalist movements, like communism, be vanquished by Western liberalism, individualism and consumerism, or will they, on the contrary, acquire added importance? Or will the Gnostic \u201ctradition\u201d instead shape the future, with its scepticism towards doctrinal faith and its emphasis on inward enlightenment?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\n Paul Heelas: The Sacralization of Life <\/p>\n

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\n Erik Davis: Techgnosis \u2013 The Incarnation of Ideas <\/p>\n

\n Contributing Editor, Wired, San Francisco, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Jos\u00e9 Casanova: Religion in a Global Age <\/p>\n

\n Professor, New School for Social Research, Department of Sociology, NY, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Morton Narrowe: The Sacred and Profane <\/p>\n

\n Chief Rabbi, Stockholm, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Antoine Faivre: Western Esoteric Currents of this Turn of the Century \u2013 Continuity and New Per\u00adspectives <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Directeur d\u2019\u00c9tudes \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9cole Pratique des Hautes \u00c9tudes, Sciences Religieuses, Sorbonne, France <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Gilles Quispel: Gnosis and the Future of Christianity \u2013 A Historical Survey <\/p>\n

\n Professor Emeritus, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Elaine H. Pagels: The Gnostic Approach to Religion <\/p>\n

\n Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion, Princeton University, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Robert Jay Lifton: Fundamentalism in a Psychoanalytic Perspective \u2013 The Self <\/p>\n

\n Professor, City University of New York, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n John C. Farrell: Religion and Freud \u2013 Secular Fundamen\u00adtalism <\/p>\n

\n Associate Professor of Literature, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Whitney S. Bodman: Islamic Fundamentalism <\/p>\n

\n Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Massimo Introvigne: The New Religions in Practice <\/p>\n

\n Dr, CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions), Turin, Italy <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Rolf Ek\u00e9us: Future Threats <\/p>\n

\n Ambassador, Chairman of the Governing Board at SIPRI, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n John F. Haught: Science, Religion and the Question of Cosmic Purpose <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Georgetown University, Department of Theology, Washington, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Harvey Cox: The Future of the Great Religions <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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