PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Valcova, Katarina
AU  - Pavlikova, Martina
AU  - Roubalova, Marie
TI  - Religious Existentialism as a Countermeasure to Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
DP  - 2016 Sep 30
TA  - Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina
PG  - 98--104
VI  - 18
IP  - 3
AID - 10.26552/com.C.2016.3.98-104
IS  - 13354205
AB  - Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD) is a new spiritual trend that is increasingly changing the religious landscape of in the Euro-American cultural provenience. Though appealing to the generation of 'emerging adults' (age 18-25), MTD results in undesirable life-outcomes that prompt religious scholars, theologians, and sociologists to carefully study its roots, expressions, and possible alternatives. Using S. Kierkegaard's religious existentialism as a case study, the authors argue that religious existentialism has the potential to face the detrimental effects of MTD and to reinvigorate stagnating religious communities.