Os direitos humanos como religião secular
This thesis examines the relationship between religion, modernity and human rights. Traditionally, religion acted as a generating and unifying force in human societies. With modernity, however, a new conception of religion emerges. Human rights, a typically modern product, are presented as a manifes...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da PUC_SP |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.pucsp.br:handle/24062 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/24062 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::DIREITO Direitos humanos - Aspectos religiosos - Cristianismo Religião Secularização (Teologia) Human rights - Religious aspects - Christianity Religion Secularization (Theology) |
| Sumario: | This thesis examines the relationship between religion, modernity and human rights. Traditionally, religion acted as a generating and unifying force in human societies. With modernity, however, a new conception of religion emerges. Human rights, a typically modern product, are presented as a manifestation of the way modernity has dealt with the religious issue. The thesis seeks to show, however, that the modern arrangement - especially in relation to the Christianity from which the modern era originated - is misleading and, over time, unsustainable: the modern attempt to repress religion is not successful, as it ends giving rise to substitute religions that, because they are false copies of a genuine religion, are unable to succeed, leading to a series of problems addressed in the text. These substitute religions are precisely secular religions. The thesis presents human rights as a secular religion that can develop in a democratic way, as a civil religion, or can acquire a totalitarian aspect, developing as a political religion. Both forms are problematic and are not normally found in a pure state. However, the thesis demonstrates how the secular character of human rights has a totalitarian tendency, in the sense of seeking to encompass all aspects of social life, which results in the problem of inflation of rights |
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