‘The religion of the future’ by Maurice Straszewski in the perspective of contemporary transformations of religion and religiosity

Abstract

The category of ‘religion of the future’, which was the subject of Maurycy Straszewski’s philosophical inquiries, is also present in contemporary philosophical, theological or anthropological discourse. Straszewski emphasised that culture, scientific progress and the history of philosophy are inextricably linked to the history of religion and theology. He emphasised the importance of religious needs for the very emergence of dogmatic systems as well as philosophy. Nowadays, we deal with secularisation, on the one hand, and a kind of revitalisation of religion, on the other. The current revival of religiosity differs from earlier ones in its global scope and its original forms, and also involves a kind of ‘suspension’ of the previous determinants of religion, such as dogma, authority, cult, orthodoxy.