Modern Hindu culture : a study on modernization of Hinduism by considering the parallels in modern Christianity
- The Christian culture experienced a deep-going change with the uprising of the Civil Society ("Bürgerliche Gesellschaft"), the industrialization of economic production, the urbanization of life-style and the individualization of religiosity in the 19th century. The Christian formation of inner- and outer-world in those days became obsolete. From this conflict the civil or modern Christianity origi-nated. In a painful changing process most of the people of this new society have newly interpreted religion, moral and ritual of traditional Christianity and cre-ated to their new conditions of life new institutional forms of transmission and realization of Christian cultural heritage. Under the recourse of the Reformato-rian heritage the modern Christianity developed the religious-moral doctrine: A true Christian is before all a citizen who is living in the midst of the world self-determinate and socially engaged fulfilling all his worldly duties; the modern Christian has to get this motivation for a world-oriented existence on his own responsibility because religion is not restricted anymore. ...
Author: | Edmund WeberGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-48921 |
URL: | http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/religionskultur.htm |
ISSN: | 1434-5935 |
Parent Title (English): | Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur |
Series (Serial Number): | Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur (6) |
Publisher: | Univ. |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
Document Type: | Part of Periodical |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 1997 |
Year of first Publication: | 1997 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2007/10/09 |
Issue: | 6 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 191220442 |
Institutes: | Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Institut für Wissenschaftliche Irenik |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 2 Religion / 20 Religion / 200 Religion |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |