The Problem of Theodicy

Fonnesu, Luca

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“…Dakle, tridesetih godina sedamnaestog stoljeća u Francuskoj dolazi do znatnog porasta broja deista, tako da ireligioznost vjerojatno počinje rasti između objavljivanja Bayleovog (Bayle 1697(Bayle /1965) Rječnika i Montesquieuovog (Montesquieu 1748/1897) Duha zakona (O'Keefe 1961). To je istovremeno podrazumijevalo i opadanje popularnosti filozofske teodiceje (Fonnesu 2006). Danas znamo da su mnogi autori svoje spise objavljivali anonimno ili su za svog života odlagali izdavanje, kao što su poznate i sudbine ljudi koji su javno branili svoje radikalne i/ili heretičke ideje.…”

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Jean Meslier’s Radical Atheism

Škorić

2016

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Sažetak Ključne riječiJean Meslier, ateizam, materijalizam, prosvjetiteljstvo, tajna literatura Društveni i intelektualni kontekst ateizma između šesnaestog i osamnaestog stoljeća »Vidio sam i shvatio greške, zloupotrebe i zablude i poroč nost ljudi. Mrzio sam ih i prezirao. Nisam se usudio to izreći za života, ali reći ću to makar dok umirem i nakon svoje smr ti; neka se zna da pišem ovaj spomen kako bi mogao poslu žiti kao svjedok istini svima onima koji će ga možda vidjeti i pročitati ako budu željeli. Jako rijetko nisam patio u sebi kada sam bio primoran propovijedati te pobožne laži koje sam u svom srcu prezirao… Koje kajanje sam osjećao zbog pobuđi vanja vaše lakovjernosti! Tisuću puta sam bio na granici pu canja u javnosti, htio sam vam otvoriti oči, ali strah koji je bio jači od mene obuzdavao me je i prisiljavao na tišinu do moje smrti.« (Meslier 1992; odlomak iz ostavljenog pisma) Prije Charlesa Darwina (1859Darwina ( .-1964, odnosno prije darvinizma, većina misli laca nije mogla shvatiti kako bi poredak i regularnosti u prirodi mogli biti rezul tat slučajnosti, a ne inteligentnog stvaranja, i zato je pored teizma najpopularniji bio deizam, iako je (i on) smatran heterodoksijom. Najveći broj obrazovanih ljudi bio je uvjeren da priroda i svi zaključci do kojih možemo doći razumom ukazuju na postojanje boga. Krajem sedamnaestog stoljeća sve više »radikalnih mislilaca« počinje govoriti da su uobičajena shvaćanja boga nekoherentna, dje * Tekst je nastao tijekom rada na projektu broj 179037, financiranom od strane Ministarstva za nauku Republike Srbije.

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Jean Meslier’s Radical Atheism

Škorić

2016

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When is Faith Enough? The Effects of Religious Involvement on Depression

Schnittker

2001

Scientific Study of Religion

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Although most scholars find that religious involvement is negatively related to depression, questions still remain regarding how individuals benefit from such involvement and evidence from nationally representative samples is rare. In this paper, I expand upon previous research by considering three types of general religious involvement (attendance at religious services, religious salience, and spiritual help-seeking) and three types of effects (linear, curvilinear, and stress-buffering). Using Americans' Changing Lives (House 1989)-a large, nationally representative, and longitudinal data set-I find a U-shaped effect of religious salience on depression, no significant independent effect of service attendance, and a positive effect of spiritual help-seeking. I also find that spiritual help-seeking and religious salience exhibit significant stress-buffering effects, but that these occur only when individuals experience multiple negative life events, and not when they experience any single type of discrete event. The theoretical implications of these effects are discussed, both as they contribute to research on the life stress paradigm and research on the psychology of religion.Sociological research on the relationship between religious involvement and psychological well-being can be divided into two approaches. The first, following Durkheimian themes, examines the relationship between religious affiliation and aggregate measures of distress-most notably suicide rates (Breault 1986;Pescosolido and Georgianna 1989;Pope and Danigelis 1981). In general, this research has found evidence of a significant effect of religious affiliation, consistent with the model suggested in Suicide (Durkheim [1897(Durkheim [ ] 1951. The second, by comparison, examines the relationship between religious involvement and psychological well-being at the individual level. While some have focused on the effects of religious involvement on suicidality (Agnew 1998), others have focused on the relationship between religious involvement and psychological well-being (Bergin

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The Problem of Theodicy

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Jean Meslier’s Radical Atheism

Jean Meslier’s Radical Atheism

When is Faith Enough? The Effects of Religious Involvement on Depression

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