SPORTS EXPERIENCE AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. ELEMENTS OF ANALYSIS

[The phenomenon of sport, especially its popularity and significance, strongly marks the contemporary world. This text is an attempt to describe sports experience (especially football) as a value for a fan experiencing it. It is not an analysis of sport in the philosophical perspective usually concentrating on its ethical or anthropological aspects. That is why the author analyses here, among other things, its identity, aesthetic and egalitarian character, touching upon such important phenomena as patriotic feelings in the context of sport, its media dimension or the problems with stadium hooligans. Finally, to emphasize the research problem outlined in this way, the author discusses the thesis of striking similarities between sports experience and religious experience formulated repeatedly in the present debate over contemporary forms of global secularization.

Gott Als Fruchtbare Illusion? Ernst Blochs Atheismus Mm Christentum

Either almighty God or a free man: this is an alternative of atheistic critique of religion. In this context, the aim of the article is to present Ernst Bloch’s (1885–1977) original proposal, concluded in his Atheism in Christianity. Standing for atheistic humanism he finds an inspiration in the Bible, in the classical example of Job’s (undeserved) suffering. Bloch’s original and appealing concept of Marxist revolution is based on hope and the idea of liberation, which are very characteristic of him. This article focuses on such issues of philosophy of religion as the biblical concept of God, the proposal of Job’s radical dilemma of righteous man’s suffering or the significance of eschatology for understanding immutability of God in His essence, who acts in mutable history

Prymat emocji w religii? Williama Jamesa ujęcie doświadczenia religijnego

The primacy of emotion in religion? William James's concept of religious experience In his fundamental book, The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902, which enjoyed considerable attention  among philosophers, psychologists, as well as religious studies specialists, William James, in the title itself, indicates his perception of the phenomenon of religious experience as extremely diverse. However, carrying distinctive elements of pragmatism and also James's theory of emotion called James-Lange theory, the religious experience is here understood primarily  as a strongly emotional phenomenon. Although James did not acknowledge the existence of specifically  religious emotions,  he considered emotions to be the most essential/ significant within the religious experience. The purpose of this paper is to present James’s concept of religious experience from the perspective of such characteristics as privacy, directness/immediacy or nobleness. An attempt   undertaken here is to look at the essence of religion in the form of a religious experience through   the reference to James's original theory of experience.]]>The primacy of emotion in religion? William James's concept of religious experience In his fundamental book, The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902, which enjoyed considerable attention  among philosophers, psychologists, as well as religious studies specialists, William James, in the title itself, indicates his perception of the phenomenon of religious experience as extremely diverse. However, carrying distinctive elements of pragmatism and also James's theory of emotion called James-Lange theory, the religious experience is here understood primarily  as a strongly emotional phenomenon. Although James did not acknowledge the existence of specifically  religious emotions,  he considered emotions to be the most essential/ significant within the religious experience. The purpose of this paper is to present James’s concept of religious experience from the perspective of such characteristics as privacy, directness/immediacy or nobleness. An attempt   undertaken here is to look at the essence of religion in the form of a religious experience through   the reference to James's original theory of experience.]]

God as a fruitful illusion? Ernst Bloch’s „Atheism in Christianity“

Either almighty God or a free man: this is an alternative of atheistic critique of religion. In this context, the aim of the article is to present Ernst Bloch’s (1885–1977) original proposal, concluded in his Atheism in Christianity. Standing for atheistic humanism he finds an inspiration in the Bible, in the classical example of Job’s (undeserved) suffering. Bloch’s original and appealing concept of Marxist revolution is based on hope and the idea of liberation, which are very characteristic of him. This article focuses on such issues of philosophy of religion as the biblical concept of God, the proposal of Job’s radical dilemma of righteous man’s suffering or the significance of eschatology for understanding immutability of God in His essence, who acts in mutable history

SPORTS EXPERIENCE AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. ELEMENTS OF ANALYSIS

The phenomenon of sport, especially its popularity and significance, strongly marks the contemporary world. This text is an attempt to describe sports experience (especially football) as a value for a fan experiencing it. It is not an analysis of sport in the philosophical perspective usually concentrating on its ethical or anthropological aspects. That is why the author analyses here, among other things, its identity, aesthetic and egalitarian character, touching upon such important phenomena as patriotic feelings in the context of sport, its media dimension or the problems with stadium hooligans. Finally, to emphasize the research problem outlined in this way, the author discusses the thesis of striking similarities between sports experience and religious experience formulated repeatedly in the present debate over contemporary forms of global secularization