The emergence of new religiosities in the context of modernity and postmodernity

Abstract

In the present work it is a reflection on the transformations that the religious praxis and the religiosity in general have suffered from the process of secularization that began with the Protestant Reformation. All started with the uprooting of a unitive idea with the divine characteristic of ancient religions. In the axial religions, especially the matrix mathematics, God is a transcendent being who gave humanity the opportunity to choose between good and evil; said God is no longer immersed or undifferentiated in his creation, nor does he demand sacrifices or immolations, nor does he grant fortune or luck a change of veneration and worship.
With Protestantism became a conception of God called Deism that schematized the relationship between the Creator and the creature in the simplicity of a phrase: He in heaven, occupied in their affairs; we on earth doing the same. Then it became a time of militant and galloping disbelief. Atheism transformed into an ideology spread throughout the world along with socialist revolutions; but, as we will see in this article, in the light of authors like Berger, Taylor, Corbi, Casanova, Armstrong ... religion survived the process of secularization and modernization of the world; and it resurfaced no longer in its monolithic and dogmatic character of yesteryear, its renewal brought with it its pluralization. A new religiosity has arisen derived from plurality, the de-dogmatization and commodification of the sacred; this religiosity is lax and playful. This is what this work is about.