Religion and Spirituality

G. Danzer
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Adam Smith and J-J Rousseau share some common ground when it comes to religion, namely that they were born into and educated in cultural contexts deeply shaped by Reformed Christianity. However, close consideration of their writings on religion reveal marked difference. This paper explores those differences and finds that Rousseau and Smith are radically at odds on this score. Smith has almost nothing to say about personal spirituality, and locates the significance of religion in its social role. Rousseau, on the other hand, accords religion no social role whatever, and finds its value to be purely of a personal and spiritual nature. This difference is not without some contemporary relevance, since it highlights some of the issues surrounding the distinction between ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in modern secularized societies.
宗教与灵性
亚当·斯密和j·j·卢梭在宗教方面有一些共同点,即他们都出生在改革宗基督教深深塑造的文化背景中。然而,仔细研究他们的宗教著作,就会发现明显的差异。本文探讨了这些差异,并发现卢梭和史密斯在这一点上存在根本的分歧。斯密对个人灵性几乎只字不提,他将宗教的重要性定位于其社会角色。另一方面,卢梭不赋予宗教任何社会角色,他认为宗教的价值纯粹是个人的和精神的。这种差异并非没有当代意义,因为它突出了现代世俗化社会中围绕“宗教”和“灵性”之间区别的一些问题。
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