Gianni Vattimo: religion and secularization in post-modernity

Abstract

The aim of this work is to show that religion was, in traditional societies, a great and powerful system, but, with the advent of secularization, it lost authority, ceasing to be an integrating element of society, becoming only more a subsystem among many others. It is worth mentioning that secularization did not end religious discourse, but revitalized it. The secularization process is mistakenly associated with a form of atheism, it is, on the other hand, responsible for the diffuse return of the religious in our culture. What reasons led to this return and what can be pointed out as a consequence? The fact is that religion has intensified in our society, which goes against the idea that religion was forgotten or even abolished due to secularization.