scholarly journals Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “Religionless Christianity”: Secular and Divine

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 11-39
Author(s):  
A. Nyrkov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Religionless Christianity ◽  
Destructive Factor

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “Religionless Christianity” brought its author a scandal- ous reputation. Bonhoeffer’s name is associated with serious changes in the life of Western society in the second half of the twentieth century. Pastor Bonhoeffer was not afraid to go far in his statements. One of the most famous his ecclesiasti- cal and social insights associated with the “religionless Christianity” project, the principal features of which are discussed in the article. The main conclusion is that the “religionless Christianity” project, conceived by the author for the extensive missionary purpose is ultimately proving to be self-destructive factor. This article is the continuation of “Religion and the Human in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Religion- less Christianity” [Нырков 2014].

scholarly journals Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity: Psychological Phenomenon?

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 20-58
Author(s):  
A. Nyrkov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Divine Nature ◽  
Psychological Phenomenon ◽  
Religionless Christianity

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's name is associated with serious changes in the life of Western society in the second half of the twentieth century. Pastor Bonhoeffer was not afraid to go far in his statements. One of the most famous his ecclesiastical and social insights associated with the "religionless Christianity" project, the premises of which are discussed in the article. The main conclusion is that the Divine nature is perceived by Bonhoeffer through the exclusive prism of human and this-worldly existence.

scholarly journals Religion and the Human in the Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christianity

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 11-48
Author(s):  
A. Nyrkov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Psychological Phenomenon ◽  
Religionless Christianity

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s name is associated with serious changes in the life of Western society in the second half of the twentieth century. Pastor Bonhoeffer was not afraid to go far in his statements. One of his most famous ecclesiastical and social insights concerns the «religionless Christianity» project, the principal features of which are dis- cussed in the article. The main conclusion is that the “religionless Christianity” proj- ect, conceived by the author for the extensive missionary purpose in practice appears to be impossible. This article is a continuation of «Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity: Psychological Phenomenon?» published in number 5 (84) of 2014.

Invention in “New New” Religions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole M. Cusack
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Western Society ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
New Religions ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Church

This chapter discusses the concept of invention and applies it to the study of New Religious Movements (NRMs). Invention plays a part in all religions and is linked to other conceptual lenses including syncretism and legitimation. Yet invention is more readily detected in contemporary phenomena (so-called “invented,” “hyper-real,” or “fiction-based” religions), which either eschew, or significantly modify, the appeals to authority, antiquity, and divine revelation that traditionally accompany the establishment of a new faith. The religions referred to in this chapter (including Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, and Jediism) are distinctively “new new” religions, appearing from the mid-twentieth century, and gaining momentum in the deregulated spiritual market of the twenty-first century West. Overt religious invention has mainstreamed in the Western society, as popular culture, individualism and consumerism combine to facilitate the cultivation of personal spiritualities, and the investment of ephemeral entertainments with ultimate significance and meaning.

The Foundress and the Foundlings: the ‘Moral Panic’ of 1893 in the Orphanage of Mercy

1994 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 477-499
Author(s):  
Stuart Mews
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Child Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Health Minister ◽  
Panic Of 1893 ◽  
Abuse And Neglect

Child abuse sometimes seems to be a discovery of the closing decades of the twentieth century. Academic attention was focused on the problem by a conference sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine, chaired by the Health Minister Dr David Owen, in 1976. Among the twenty-six contributors was a member of our society, Professor Gordon Dunstan, and Dom Benedict Webb. The publicity for the published proceedings claimed that ‘Child abuse and neglect provide some of the most important and difficult problems in Western Society.’

The Beast with Two Backs: Aleister Crowley, Sex Magic and the Exhaustion of Modernity

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh B. Urban
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Western Society ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Level Of Consciousness ◽  
Aleister Crowley ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cultural Contradictions

ABSTRACT: Infamous for his drug use and extreme sexual practices, and proclaiming himself the ““Great Beast 666,”” Aleister Crowley remains to this day one of the most influential and yet most often misunderstood figures in the history of Western new religious movements. This article offers a fresh approach to Crowley, by placing him within contemporary debates about modernism and postmodernism. By no means the outcast enemy of modern Western society so often depicted in the media, Crowley was, I argue, a stunning reflection of some of the most acute cultural contradictions at the heart of modern Western civilization in the early twentieth century. A uniquely Janus-faced character, he reflects both the ““Faustian”” will of modernism as well as its tragic failure and exhaustion at mid-century in the aftermath of the two World Wars. Where does our modern world belong——to exhaustion or ascent?——Its manifoldness and unrest conditioned by the attainment of the highest level of consciousness. ——Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power1 The point about Crowley is that he seems to contain all these sorts of ideas and identities——indeed most of the vices of the Twentieth Century——and he was dead at the end of 1947. ——Snoo Wilson, author of the play ““The Beast”” (1974)2

Protestantism, Modernity and Justification by Faith

1985 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-382
Author(s):  
C. Villa-Vicencio
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Justification By Faith

Not all people deal with the crucial existential questions of modernity in a religious manner. Yet, contrary to enlightenment predictions, religion continues to be a prominent reality in the latter part of twentieth-century western society. It is the purpose of this essay to identify the distinctive nature of the contemporary Protestant brand of this religiosity.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906–45)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Loup Seban
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Confessing Church ◽  
Imitation Of Christ ◽  
The World ◽  
Religionless Christianity

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a twentieth-century Lutheran theologian who associated Christian belief and political action in an exemplary fashion. His part in the struggle of the Confessing Church and of the German resistance against the National-Socialist dictatorship cost him his life. Christocentric and ecclesiocentric, he stressed personal and collective piety and revived the idea of the imitation of Christ; the concepts of obedience and of the suffering God are central to his view. His Ethik (1949) was widely influential; in it, he argued that Christians should not retreat from the world, but have a duty to act within it. His answer to the secularization of the modern world was a ‘religionless Christianity’, a communocentric, pietistic, personal discipline.

Confronting Secularization: Origins of the London Society for the Study of Religion

1993 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Barmann
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Western World ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Religious Convictions

The secularization process in western society, first clearly discernible in the Italian Renaissance, reached a certain plateau at the beginning of the twentieth century. Whatever else might be meant by “the secularization process,” it meant at least, and means in these pages, the gradual deposition of religion from almost every structure and dimension of society except, perhaps, the most private and personal. To thoughtful individuals possessed of mature religious convictions secularization sometimes seemed to portend the end of religion generally: not by law or sword, but simply by social absorption. To meet this challenge, not by denouncing the secularization process nor modernity in general, but simply by sharing their own thoughts on religion and what its role might or should be in the newly secularized western world, a group of prominent London-based men formed in 1904 the London Society for the Study of Religion. The pages which follow are a study of this Society's origins.

scholarly journals Reformation and Islam

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
Glenn Chestnutt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Muslim Scholar ◽  
Just Society ◽  
To Come ◽  
Contemporary Western Society

This article investigates the use of Barth’s understanding of the “Just State” to see how contemporary Western society can accommodate religious pluralism, so that communities of different religious beliefs can strive towards a society which does not simply tolerate one another but finds a way to come together to cohabitate and create an egalitarian and just society for all. The article will attempt to bring into discussion Karl Barth, a twentieth century theologian, Tariq Ramadan, a leading European Muslim scholar and Ali Gomaa, the Egyptian former Grand Mufti, with the scope of demonstrating that, despite their different religious backgrounds, it is possible to bring Christianity and Islam into a fruitful conversation that will foster collaboration and understanding of the other.

Unseen Women in Psychedelic History

2021 ◽  
pp. 002216782110291
Author(s):  
Mariavittoria Mangini
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Western History ◽  
Therapeutic Impact ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Female Therapists

The drug experiences of women in Western society have been both sensationalized for their scandalous aspects and sterilized in clinical reports, but the role of women in the investigation of psychedelics in modern Western history is obscure, and the identities and activities of early women participants are often unknown. This paper explores some of the under-reported history of women’s contributions to psychedelic exploration and research in the twentieth century. Mabel Luhan and Valentina Wasson represent women whose stories have entered the canon of psychedelic history but have failed to fully represent their individual impact. Wasson’s work is often subsumed under that of her more well-known husband. Luhan is considered to be a psychedelic pioneer, but her pattern of interference in the politics of peyote in the Taos Pueblo is often overlooked. The poet Mary Barnard is well-known as a translator of Sappho, but her lyrical writing on psychedelics is less celebrated. Gertrude Paltin and Kay Parley are female therapists and authors whose valuable writing on psychedelics is almost unknown in the field. There remain many women whose significant contributions to the exploration and employment of psychedelics for spiritual development, personal discovery, individual betterment or therapeutic impact have not been well recorded.

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