![]() ![]() After all, this may not be a minor detail, specially when one wants to discuss the bond between religion and the social sciences, which indeed have been invented in the West. ![]() All of them Judaism, Christianity, Islamism, and even Buddhism, the atheist religion can be included here- come from what we call the ∾ast. On the subject of monoteism: since I am far from being an expert in the matter, I do not know whether much thought has been devoted to the fact that the West as such has not given rise to any of the great religions of the world. ![]() It goes without saying that, in this context, the term introduction is not a random choice, for in fact the so-called West receives monoteism as if it were from outside. The phrase, so frequently uttered by judges in movies, should at least deserve an article by Marc Augé: is religion also one of his trivial non-places? One of the first signs of incipient modernity, as suggested by Hegel himself, was the introduction of Judeo-Christian monoteism into ancient European paganism as the principle of subjective individuation. At that point, the religious (better said, God, as if the religious could be reduced to this image) has no place I. It is said or rather, it has quite often been said- that modernity is an unstoppable process of disillusionment with the world from which there is no turning back. ∽eep down, what deprives man of all possibility of speaking about God is that, in human thought, God is necessarily the image of man, whereas man is weary and hungry for sleep and peace Perhaps what is being called into question is mans presence in the world. An interest in various sociological traditions that have dealt with religious issues reveals that a purely rational approach to the problem is bound to frustrate hermeneutic power. In that context, the paper poses questions about the present relations between religion and the social sciences, bearing in mind religions ideological plasticity. In this paper, the author explores the survival of religion in the world after the modern historical process known as disillusionment with the world. Translation from Sociedad (Buenos Aires), Buenos Aires, n.24, 2005. Former Deputy Dean of the School of Social Sciences (UBA) Professor of Political Theory at the School of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. The fall of the Gods, or modernity without illusions ![]()
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