Modernity and Interpretations of Religions

Abstract

Modernity is based on the demand for the emancipation of human beings, starting from their liberation from the shackles of social determination in its earlier traditional forms. This liberation called for the abandoning of the dominant forms of legitimating power–in the family, in the communities within which ways of life and production are organized, in the State–based up to then on a metaphysics, generally of religious expression. It therefore implies the separation of the State and religion, a radical secularization, which is the condition for the deployment of modern forms of politics.