Modern religiosity persists after its supernatural objects are excised

Evidence

Until recently, changes of religious culture have always proceeded in the following way: a certain form of religious life, originally fully adequate in its strengths and essential characteristics, gradually rigidifies in superficialties and narrow specialization. It is displaced by a newly rising form in which religious impulses can flow, dynamically and without impediment. In other words, a new religious form, a new series of beliefs took the place of an outmoded one. For a relatively large number of people today, the supernatural objects of religious belief have been radically excised; their religious impulse, however, has not thereby been eliminated. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 864

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels how urban dwellers in Simmel’s metropolis retain the psychic impulse for connection while its objects become filtered by the blasé attitude. — connects to: Religious estrangement from earthly life mirrors the adventure’s fragmentary character — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 474; A non-religious impulse within religion can destroy its own forms — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 852; Preserving religious feeling requires abandoning religious forms — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 865 (+10 more)

Related

• A non-religious impulse within religion can destroy its own forms (similarity 0.89)
• Modern secular ideologies are secularized extensions of Christian universalism. (similarity 0.88)
• Preserving religious feeling requires abandoning religious forms (similarity 0.87)
• Religious estrangement from earthly life mirrors the adventure’s fragmentary character (similarity 0.80)
• Intellectuals turned to mysticism because church forms felt inadequate (similarity 0.79)
• Fake believers would invade and destroy prosocial religious groups without safeguards (similarity 0.78)
• Gods become fiction when their cultural support base drains. (similarity 0.78)
• Sacred values’ interpretive ambiguity allows peace-oriented reframing (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Preserving religious feeling requires abandoning religious forms #expands (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 865
• Secularization transferred religious aura to art and literature. #exemplifies (0.70)
• Real change requires discarding rather than reforming the old religion #contradicts (0.60)
• Skepticism belongs to belief, so faith remains fertile in a postmodern world. #expands (0.60) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 394
• Religion carries no necessary political meaning but is anchored in tendential historical formations #complicates (0.50)