| Abstract [eng] |
Religious Experience in the Philosophy of Richard Kearney. The paper discusses Richard Kearney's philosophical concept of anatheism, which seeks to explore the problem of the return of religion to secular daily life. The philosophy of Martin Heidegger, who emphasized the inadequacy of metaphysics and created a favourable environment for post-metaphysical thought, as well as the philosophy of experience and dialogue, is taken into account while considering the problems of modern religious experience and seeking to understand the change of thought in post-secular consciousness and the preconditions for the return to religion. When considering the heterogeneous concept of religious experience, the specific religious feeling by Friedrich Schleiermacher and the structure of the holy by Rudolf Otto are discussed. The paper analyses how Kearney's original anatheistic effort to reflect on the return of religiosity leads to an ambivalent space of the secular and the sacred, in an attempt to see ways of sanctifying everyday life and secularizing sacredness. Anatheistic faith as a continuous movement between philosophic reflection and humble religiosity is discussed, and the question of how anatheism enables the reinterpretation of religious experience is analysed. The idea of how the anatheistic approach to religious experience reveals the paradox of returning to God after God is considered, while at the same discussing the link between mystical thought of via negativa and anatheistic paradigm. Interpreting God as the Stranger the reference is made to Levinas’ concept of otherness, which helps to reflect more closely on the problem of the Stranger. Levinas’ concept of the Face serves to emphasize the hospitality towards the other and the responsibility for the stranger who has appeared on the threshold and who, because of an interpretive movement, may be rejected as a foe or embraced as a friend. The problem of the relationship between religion and art is examined from the perspective of the post-secular state, in order to recognize the manifestation of unexpected forms of religiosity in modern times. Possibilities of religious experience in the context of art are revealed, where the imagination enables the sacralisation of the secular and the secularization of the sacred. The analysis of works of contemporary metal art reveals not only the religious meaning in art, but also the possibility of discovering religious experience through works of art. |
