Esperienza religiosa e dimensione politica

The major aim of this paper is to discuss the relation between politics and religious experience from the perspective of social philosophy. Nowadays the democratic societies suffer the effects of a social pathology strongly intertwined with two major modern traditions: naturalism and secularism. Some speak of a sort of «anthropological emergency»: alienation of the human beings, reification of the human relations, meaninglessness of social action, and lack of motivation. With the supportof scholars such as E.-W. Böckenförde, J. Habermas, Ch. Taylor, and H.Joas, this paper holds that religious experience can provide the necessary resources to treat this social pathology.