(A)teizem in pojmovanja smisla življenja v postsocialističnih deželah

Smrke, Marjan (author)

Članek obravnava v postsocialističnih deželah pogosto tezo cerkvenih govorcev o neosmišljenosti sekularne kulture in zlasti ateistov. Tezo empirično preverjam na podatkih ISSP, razlikujoč štiri kategorije a/teistov in pet smiselnostnih spremenljivk. Videti je, da v primerjavi s teisti ateisti niso smiselnostno prikrajšana oz. pesimistična kategorija. Predvsem slovenski t. i.naravni ateisti (ateisti brez verske vzgoje) izstopajo po svojem optimizmu. V luči takih ugotovitev cerkveno tezo o neosmišljenosti ateistov razumem kot reakcijo na naraščajočo smiselnostno pluralizacijo: s podcenjevanjem konkurenčnih smiselnostnih sistemov skuša katoliška cerkev ohraniti oz. povečati relativno tržno vrednost lastnega smisla.

• Language: Slovenian
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2004
• Number of pages: Str. 575-585
• Numbering: Letn. 41, št. 3/4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-22387
• UDC: 27
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 23346525
• Publication date in RUL: 11.07.2014

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Visoka šola za politične vede, Visoka šola za politične vede, Visoka šola za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo, Fakulteta za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo, Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

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• Language: Unknown

Abstract

This article is the second in a "trilogy" dealing with the Church's "Victorian prejudices" regarding atheism, which are noticeable among the more conservative advocates of the Church in post-communist states. The article discusses the relationship between (a)theism and conception as to the meaning of life. The respective prejudice of the Church is that the life of an atheisthas no meaning, and lacks orientation. The ISSP survey - which allows identification of supernatural (God-centred) and naturalistic conceptions as to life's meaning - reveals that the production of meaning is a very obvious activity amongst the atheist population. Atheists in all the analysed states emphasize the importance of man's own active role in instituting the meaning of life. The article thus provides an explanation of the established relations; it also represents an attempt to bring to the fore both atheism and atheists as the subject of sociological research in post-communist states.