Pós-modernidade e religiosidade líquida

: uma análise a partir das contribuições de José María Mardones e Zygmunt Bauman

Abstract

The title of this study – Postmodernity and liquid religiosity: an analysis based onthe contributions of José María Mardones and Zygmunt Bauman – situates us in one oftoday's great themes in the field of religion and philosophy of religion. It is a question ofseeing how the era in which we live, known as post-modernity, and religiosity coexistand articulate and/or mutually influence each other. In order to delve deeper into the subject, this study draws on the analyses and contributions of various authors, especially JoséMaría Mardones and Zygmunt Bauman. The first chapter analyses the so-called postmodernity, highlighting some of its intellectual protagonists and some of its major trendsand characteristics, since this is the general framework in which the current religious phenomenon is inserted, in its personal and community dimensions. The second chapter triesto identify significant elements for a diagnosis of religious practice in Portugal, in orderto understand a little better the degree of religious belonging as well as the basic attitudestowards religious institutions and established beliefs. The third is the interpretative articulation of the first two, with the help of José María Mardones and Zygmunt Bauman and the respective theses of de-institutionalization of religion and liquid modernity. With this work, the interpretative efficacy of both the de-institutionalization thesis and the application of Bauman’s idea of liquidity to the current religious experience becomes quite clear.

Date of Award	30 Mar 2023
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	João Carlos Onofre Pinto (Supervisor)