RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Valcova, Katarina
A1 Pavlikova, Martina
A1 Roubalova, Marie
T1 Religious Existentialism as a Countermeasure to Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
JF Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina
YR 2016
VO 18
IS 3
SP 98
OP 104
DO 10.26552/com.C.2016.3.98-104
UL https://komunikacie.uniza.sk/artkey/csl-201603-0017.php
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.