Tag: post-religious

• February 12, 2013

  ‘Meditation is a quest that the bewildered embark upon…’

  Intellectual Context One of the founders of sociology, August Comte, wondered what could provide the social cohesion for individuals living in the midst of a secular age. He posited a ‘religion of humanity’ to fill the void left by positive religion, a void that Emile Durkheim would later call ‘anomie’ in his attempt to understand…