Religion or Life’s Encounter with Itself
This paper attempts to offer a comprehensive approach to the religious phenomenon, considering that religion—understood as the attitude that each life has towards the brute fact of life—constitutes an anthropological universal. I claim that there are three emotional places or types of vital pathos t...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2023 |
| Country: | Perú |
| Institution: | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Repository: | Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/28131 |
| Online Access: | http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/28131 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Wonder Disenchantment Pathos Religion Tragic Asombro Desencanto Religión Trágico |
| Summary: | This paper attempts to offer a comprehensive approach to the religious phenomenon, considering that religion—understood as the attitude that each life has towards the brute fact of life—constitutes an anthropological universal. I claim that there are three emotional places or types of vital pathos that allow sketching three basic modes of articulating the religious: the pathos of disenchantment, the tragic pathos, and the pathos of wonder. After discussing the dialogues, tensions, and transitions between these, the paper concludes with a vindication of wonder as the genuine experience of a strictly religious life—that is, a life reconciled with totality. |
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