RELIGIÃO E SOCIEDADE: CONSIDERAÇÕES A PARTIR DE MARX E FREUD

• Main Author: Antônio Marcos Alves Sá
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade do Oeste Paulista 2012-06-01
• Series: Colloquium Humanarum
• Subjects: Marx; Freud; religion; society
• Online Access: http://revistas.unoeste.br/revistas/ojs/index.php/ch/article/view/534/965

To analyze the relationship between religion and society from theoretical formulations of Karl Heinrich Marx(1818-1883), representative of the school of thought called dialectical and historical materialism which consolidated their thesis in the mid-nineteenth century and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), precursor of psychoanalysis in the early twentieth century, about the religious phenomenon and its influence on social relations is the goal of this article. To this end, we seek to identify the conditions necessary to establish that the religious phenomenon a kind of commonplace ideas in these authors highlight the subjective aspects pertaining to religion and, likewise, also highlight the social, cultural and economic factors that constitute the field the performance of religious ideas.