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Science will not remain mute on
spiritual and ethical questions for long. Even now, we can see the
irst stirrings among psychologists and neuroscientists of what may
one day become a genuinely rational approach to these matters –
one that will bring even the most rareied mystical experience within
the purview of open, scientiic inquiry. It is time we realized that
we need not be unreasonable to sufuse our lives with love, compassion,
ecstasy and awe; nor must we renounce all forms of spirituality
or mysticism to be on good terms with reason.
Sam Harris, he End of Faith
(trecho inicial)
Academics against the stream?
In his famous 1999 recantation of the
strong secularization thesis, Peter Berger noted that there were really
only two exceptions to what he called an ongoing and increasing desecularization
of the world: European societies west of the old Iron Curtain, and “an
international subculture composed of people with Western-type higher
education”. Parallel to the inversion of secularization theory,
scholars of new religious movements started reversing Max Weber’s
thesis of the disenchantment of the world as well (Entzauberung
der Welt), arguing that a process of re-enchantment is
sweeping through Western culture. In 1918 Weber had proclaimed that
all “mysterious incalculable forces” were being eradicated
from the world by science and scientiically based technologies. Entzauberung
– literally the disappearance of magic (Zauber)
– signified a new mentality in which modern people believed that
anything around them could, in principle, be comprehended rationally,
and that no oferings to capricious deities or magical manipulations
of occult forces were needed to master the world.
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