Georg Simmel
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Who was he? What did he write about.
Notes
- Does not see a conflict between religion and science. Regards those who dismiss religion as a "dream from which mankind is gradually awakening" as displaying "supercilious 'sophistication.'"[1]
- Differentiated religiosity from religion. Definitely has a space for Connection Experience, though his conceptualization seem quite primitive.
- Religiosity is an "inner state or need of man..." [2] A "yearning that has dominated humanity...from the most primitive indigenous people to the supreme heights of culture."[3] One that "cannot be silenced or diverted for anything more than a brief, transitory period."[4]
He defines religiosity as the inner form of human experience, which thus precedes religion. Religion then is nothing but the empirical transposition of religiosity, a realization at the organizational level through the various modalities of church, sect, denomination, and movement.[5]
- Believes that human carry with them a "special disposition...that is the precondition for the encounter with the divine." [6] Religion just emerges out of these experiences
Religion
- Religion is created by "religiousness" by a "particular spiritual quality" or "attitude of the soul." [7]
- Religion provides answers to "big questions," provide meaning, assuage hurts, creates conceptual unity. [8]
Footnotes
- ↑ Simmel, George. Essays on Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. p. 7.
- ↑ Simmel, George. Essays on Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. p. 3.
- ↑ Simmel, George. Essays on Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. p.9.
- ↑ Simmel, George. Essays on Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. p. 4.
- ↑ Cipriani, Roberta. Sociology of Religion: A Historical Introduction. London: Transaction Publishers, 2000. p. 95.
- ↑ Cipriani, Roberta. Sociology of Religion: A Historical Introduction. London: Transaction Publishers, 2000. p. 95.
- ↑ Simmel, George. Essays on Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
- ↑ Simmel, George. Essays on Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. p. 142.
