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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Autor: San Román Gómez, Álvaro
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/28131
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/28131
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Wonder
Disenchantment
Pathos
Religion
Tragic
Asombro
Desencanto
Religión
Trágico
Descripción
Sumario: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.