Religion or Life’s Encounter with Itself

• Autor: San Román Gómez, Álvaro
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/28131
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/28131
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Wonder; Disenchantment; Pathos; Religion; Tragic; Asombro; Desencanto; Religión; Trágico

This paper attempts to offer a comprehensive approach to the religious phenomenon, considering that religion—understood as the attitude that each life has towards the brute fact of life—constitutes an anthropological universal. I claim that there are three emotional places or types of vital pathos that allow sketching three basic modes of articulating the religious: the pathos of disenchantment, the tragic pathos, and the pathos of wonder. After discussing the dialogues, tensions, and transitions between these, the paper concludes with a vindication of wonder as the genuine experience of a strictly religious life—that is, a life reconciled with totality.