RT Article
T1 Religion: Respect for One An Other
JF Feminist theology
VO 23
IS 3
SP 254
OP 268
A1 Praetorius, Ina 1956-
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/177689622X
AB A middle-aged Swiss friend tells me that, for her, God is ‘a contaminated word, … loaded with the spirit of many hundreds of years and miles of library shelves, a word that has nothing to do with the holistic worldview she embraces today.’1 So, she says, she has simply ‘removed the word from her vocabulary’: It’s out, it’s past, it has become a word that is used by other people only.The mindset that is expressed in these words is typical for the situation in contemporary Western Europe. Many feel alienated from the notions and lifestyles and have left the institutions – churches, synagogues, mosques – that traditionally represent what we call ‘religion’. Besides, there are, in this part of the world, so many alternatives that allow one to form a meaning of life and provide security, togetherness and entertainment: family brunches on Sunday morning, TV movies, festivals, excursions, concerts, meditation workshops, neopaganist or atheist meetings, political engagements, lonely walks in the woods…
K1 symbolic order
K1 Protestantism
K1 post-patriarchal thinking
K1 Matrix
K1 God
K1 Europe
K1 Atheism
DO 10.1177/0966735015575663