The Evolutionary Masks of Love: Continuities between Judeo-Christian Religious Love and Modern Secular Love

IF 0.7 3区哲学 0 RELIGION

Religions Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI:10.3390/rel15050610

J. A. Roche Cárcel, Javier Gil-Gimeno

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to establish a series of links between some of the main religious formulas that arise in Judaism and Christianism and the romantic and confluent love characteristic of modern societies. To carry it out, firstly, we analyze love in historical Judaism, reflecting on the Ahavah formula, the predominant formula in this religious context. Secondly, to study the Christian drift of love, we first analyze how the emergence of this new religious faith (Christianism) provokes a change in the Jewish way of understanding it (love). Subsequently, we analyze some of the three main formulas in which love materializes in Christianism: Agape, Caritas, and Amor Sui. Regarding modern love, we first carry out a contextualization focused on the processes of secularization and individualization, and their impact on it. Afterwards, we present the main features that define both romantic and confluent love, and finally, we analyze the Judeo-Christian characters inherited for such types of love. The methodology used focused on a literature review and theoretical reflection based on this review. The research carried out allows us to establish sociological continuities between Judeo-Christian religious love and modern secular love in the terms used throughout the paper.

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爱的进化面具：犹太教-基督教宗教之爱与现代世俗之爱的延续

本文的目的是在犹太教和基督教中出现的一些主要宗教公式与现代社会特有的浪漫和融合之爱之间建立一系列联系。为此，我们首先分析了历史上犹太教中的爱情，反思了这一宗教背景下的主要公式--"阿哈瓦"（Ahavah）公式。其次，为了研究基督教对爱的偏离，我们首先分析这种新宗教信仰（基督教）的出现如何引起犹太人对爱（理解）方式的改变。随后，我们分析了基督教将爱具体化的三个主要公式：Agape、Caritas 和 Amor Sui。关于现代之爱，我们首先对世俗化和个性化进程及其影响进行了背景分析。随后，我们介绍了浪漫爱情和同居爱情的主要特征，最后，我们分析了这类爱情所继承的犹太教-基督教特征。我们采用的方法主要是文献综述和在此基础上的理论思考。通过所开展的研究，我们得以在犹太教-基督教宗教爱情与现代世俗爱情之间建立起社会学上的连续性。

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Religions Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies

CiteScore

1.30

自引率

37.50%

发文量

1020

审稿时长

11 weeks

期刊介绍： Religions (ISSN 2077-1444) is an international, open access scholarly journal, publishing peer reviewed studies of religious thought and practice. It is available online to promote critical, hermeneutical, historical, and constructive conversations. Religions publishes regular research papers, reviews, communications and reports on research projects. In addition, the journal accepts comprehensive book reviews by distinguished authors and discussions of important venues for the publication of scholarly work in the study of religion. Religions aims to serve the interests of a wide range of thoughtful readers and academic scholars of religion, as well as theologians, philosophers, social scientists, anthropologists, psychologists, neuroscientists and others interested in the multidisciplinary study of religions