The proliferation of post-modern religiosity in the late sixties: the case of ’The Process Church of the Final Judgement’: from psychoanalysis as therapy to psychoanalysis as theology

Authors

• Marco Toti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67338

Keywords:

Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis, Therapeutics, Esotericism, Psychology and religion, Pluralism, Religious, United States -- Religion -- History, Religious change, Counterculture, Self-culture

Abstract

The sixties may be considered as a true turning point in the history of the West. It may be correctly stated that the counterculture ‘revolution’, which has characterized Western civilization since the sixties, gave rise to further acceleration of what has been called ‘post-modernity’, the most important character of which is the revaluation of the ‘religious’ and the detachment of the category of ‘sacred’—the divinity being generally considered as ‘impersonal’ and in terms of ‘energy’—from traditional religions.