The Eclipse of Religion and Freud’s “future of an illusion”

Franco Ferrarotti

doi:10.7336/academicus.2024.29.01

Authors

Franco Ferrarotti Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founder "Critica Sociologica" 0000-0003-4964-5371

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7336/academicus.2024.29.01

Abstract

The main contention of this paper is that, no matter whether one is a true believer or a professed atheist, religion remains a relevant social phenomenon. Serious scholars have written about an eclipse of the sacred in industrial societies through a sad confusion between «sacred» and «religious». The «religious» as a commodity administered by an organized church might well be in a state of crisis. But the «sacred» is actually the meta-human element that makes mankind exist and develop beyond the so-called «laws» of the market.

Keywords:

religion, sacred, Meta-human factor, market laws, church religion.

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