Postsecularism and Contemporary Spirituality

Karol Jasiński - Izvorni znanstveni članak

Postsekularizam i suvremena duhovnost

Abstract
The author of the article attempted to define the character of contemporary, new form of spirituality and show its connections with religion. The appearance of a new kind of spirituality is the result of processes taking place in social life. On the one hand, it is marked by secularization and secularism, on the other, it is desecularization and post-secularism. The analyzes were based on the belief that a new spirituality alone is insufficient in the life of a particular man, but it must find a complement to some religion. The article consists of three parts. In the first one the following phenomena were discussed: secularization, secularism, post-secularism. The second part analyzes the phenomenon of new spirituality. In the third, however, attention was drawn to the issue of religion, the traditional understanding of spirituality and the nature of the relationship between religion and spirituality.

Sažetak
Autor članka je pokušao definirati karakter suvremenog, novog oblika duhovnosti i pokazati njezinu povezanost s religijom. Pojava nove duhovnosti rezultat je procesa koji se odvijaju u društvenom životu. S jedne strane je duhovnost obilježena sekularizacijom i sekularizmom, a s druge strane desekularizacijom i postsekularizmom. U radu se polazi od pretpostavke da nova duhovnost sama po sebi nije dovoljna u čovjekovu životu, već on ima stalnu potrebu njezina nadograđivanja na različitim dimenzijama religije. Članak se sastoji od tri dijela. U prvom dijelu se raspravlja o sljedećim pojavama: sekularizacija, sekularizam, postsekularizam. Drugi dio analizira fenomen nove duhovnosti. U trećem dijelu se pitanje religije pokušava kontekstualizirati kroz tradicionalno razumijevanje duhovnosti, a potom i odrediti kao dio prirodnog, ponekad i paradoksalnog, odnosa religije i duhovnosti.