Abstract
Religion has often been defined as a response to the sacred. However, this also means that religion is considered meaningful if only one has an idea of the sacred. The problem surfaces when religion seems to be dominated with its brutal and savage face. In these tendencies, any criticism addressed to religion or any suggestion for the sake of changing views about religion will never be considered meaningful or taken into account if the believers do not touch the issue of the sacred at all. This article invites its readers to explore and to reimagine the idea of the sacred and at the same time offers different and imaginative perspectives in the light of Richard Kearney’s concept of anatheism. Humans do not need to separate the sacred from the so-called sensus numinis, not only because they can become and move towards the sacred, but because their lives, bodies, minds, and actions are esentially sacred.
Highlights
Religion has often been defined as a response
this also means that religion is considered meaningful if
any criticism addressed to religion
Summary
Tidak banyak orang mengenal nama Vincenzo Peruggia, dan dengan alasan yang cukup masuk akal: ia bukan siapa-siapa, ‘hanya’ karyawan biasa di sebuah museum di Paris, Museum Louvre. Buku ini meluaskan area penelitian dan melebarkan jangkauan fenomena yang teramati dengan tujuan dan kesadaran bahwa pemikiran tradisional akan teori sekularisasi tidak lagi memadai dan perlu di-upgrade.[23] Agama tidak lenyap dari dunia, dan sepertinya juga tidak menuju ke arah sana; meskipun demikian, konsep sekularisasi menangkap sebuah bagian penting dalam proses yang sedang terjadi saat ini.[24] Di dalam buku itu, Norris dan Inglehard mengembangkan versi teori sekularisasi yang memberi penekanan pada rasa perlindungan eksistensial (existential security), yaitu perasaan bahwa keberlangsungan hidup seseorang (survival) ada dalam posisi taken for granted.[25] Secara singkat para peneliti ini yakin bahwa sari pati ide perlindungan eksistensial menunjukkan adanya kebebasan dari berbagai risiko atau bahaya serius, dan juga sebagai sesuatu yang penting di dalam religiusitas.[26] Proses penelitian mereka bisa dirangkum sebagai berikut:[27]. Untuk bisa menjawab pelbagai kemungkinan ini, akan dilihat secara khusus tentang “yang sakral.”
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