About the formulas of alternative religiousness. The reelaboration of new modalities of communitarian bond

Abstract

The article tries to interpret the height acquired by the new expressions of religiousness in the contemporary western societies. It starts off, as a budget, of the anthropological capacity hoarded in the religion to cause a feeling of communitarian integration. It analyzes the process of decomposition of the binding force of the religion as a result of the appearance of modernity, as well as the sprouting of the new modality of social bond by this one caused. It article deepens, finally, in the idiosyncrasy of the new forms of contemporary religiousness, proposing that the authentic understanding of its nature would demand to contemplate them like reactions to the type of institutionalized social bond by modernity.