Il caso delle credenze religiose: buone ragioni o dimissioni dalla ragione?

• Main Author: Salvatore Abbruzzese
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Rosenberg & Sellier 2015-11-01
• Series: Quaderni di Sociologia
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/qds/301

The persistence of the phenomena of adhesion to the religious dimension in their various forms mark the problem of his understanding. The present process of secularization make very inadequate every explication based on the only social conditioning or the simply effect of imitation. That way each religious tradition appears radically minority even when even simply non-existent. For this reasons the field of research it is open for an analysis that is able to address the reasons that people have to subscribe a religious beliefs.However, it is a crucial test in that what these reasons. What is the sense that people can actually find in a religious belief. What are the criteria by which they can choose from the acceptance or rejection of specific doctrine of salvation they encounter? This contribution is committed to recover the complexity of the logic underlying the membership to a particular religious belief, through the reconstruction of religious experience made by the subjects themselves.