L'individuo-globalisme: Nouvelle culture croyante des société s industrielles avancées

Abstract

Behind the seemingly chaotic multiplication of religious groups in so-called post-industrial societies it is possible to make out an orthodoxy that oscillates between the 'search for oneself' and 'openness to All': this is 'individuo-globalism', which is accompanied by a mysticism expressed in some ways in a quasi-scientific language and in other ways in a neo-traditional language, and which is based on the cult of energy, a paradoxical substance that is both natural and supernatural, personal and impersonal, in short-individual and global. This orthodoxy, which is the ideology of the faith NGO and which is the regulating culture of the world religious field, today spills over strictly religious borders into health, sport, tourism, food, economics and politics.