TOWARDS AN INTEGRAL STUDY OF RELIGIOSITY ROOTED IN MIRCEA ELIADE'S NEW HUMANISM

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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.1.09

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religion, religiosity, Eliade’s new humanism, the philosophy of religions, attitudinal values, the human ideal

Abstract

Towards an Integral Study of Religiosity Rooted in Mircea Eliade's New Humanism. The present article advocates for the development and the implementation of a philosophy of religiosity informed by Mircea Eliade’s new humanism, Eugeniu Sperantia’s axiotropism, D. D. Roşca’s outlook on human existence and Aurel Codoban’s hermeneutic philosophy of religions. If such an integral study of religiosity were to be accommodated by a new educational paradigm, the resulting humanist pro-social education would protect society from underlying drivers of polarisation such as religious dogmatism and fundamentalism.

REZUMAT. Noul umanism eliadesc, studiul interdisciplinar al religiozităţii şi educaţia umanistă pro-socială. Pornind de la noul umanism eliadesc pe baza căruia Aurel Codoban a construit o filosofie hermeneutică a religiilor, utilizând teoria valorilor propusă de Eugeniu Sperantia precum şi concepţia filosofică a lui D. D. Roşca privitoare la condiţia umană, articolul de faţă propune introducerea unui studiu interdisciplinar al religiozităţii într-o nouă paradigmă educaţională. Educaţia umanistă pro-socială rezultată ar proteja societatea de extrem de nociva polarizare cauzată de fundamentalismul religios.

Cuvinte-cheie: religie, religiozitate, noul umanism eliadesc, filosofia religiilor, atitudini-valori, idealul uman

Author Biography

Alina PREDA, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Contact: alinapreda74@gmail.com

Alina PREDA is Associate Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Her research interests include Syntax and Discourse Analysis, Gender Studies, Contemporary English Literature and Comparative Religious Studies. Dr. Preda is the author of several books, including Jeanette Winterson and the Metamorphoses of Literary Writing (2010), A Synoptic Outline of Phrasal Syntax and Clausal Syntax and Interferences: On Gender and Genre (2013). Contact: alinapreda74@gmail.com

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STUDIA UBB PHILOLOGIA, Volume 66 (LXVI), No. 1, March 2021

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2021-03-30

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PREDA, A. (2021). TOWARDS AN INTEGRAL STUDY OF RELIGIOSITY ROOTED IN MIRCEA ELIADE’S NEW HUMANISM. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia, 66(1), 109–125. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.1.09

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