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La fin de la religion? Réenchantement et déplacement du sacré

Raymond L. M. Lee

universitée Malaya à Kuala Lumpur (Malaisie), rlmlee{at}tm.net.my

Religion has lost its definitional exclusiveness because of social and cultural changes that have reduced the distance between the sacred and secular. To be religious today can mean regular church or temple attendance as well as going to football matches or tai chi classes. Yet spiritual activities are increasing and concern with spiritual development has not subsided. This paradox points to an emerging dilemma of the self, i.e. can the self continue to claim the sacred-ness of its institutional constructions as well as seeking to empower its own domain of spirituality? But it is in the context of re-enchantment that this dilemma is being worked out. The freeing of charisma from religious institutions is fuelling re-enchantment to the extent that religion seems to be imploding under the auspices of an unrelenting insistence on self-experience. In this context, the sacred is not necessarily equivalent to the conventional meaning of religion since subjectivity has become central to knowing or approaching divinity rather than being subsumed by the structures of religion.

Key Words: charisma • de-differentiation • re-enchantment • secularization • self-spirituality

Social Compass, Vol. 55, No. 1, 66-83 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0037768607086499
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