Summary
Hans Blumenberg: The Legitimacy of the New Century
The meaning of the term sanctification seems immediately clear. Everyone accepts this label, accepting it as a fact, perhaps with criticism, as a long-term process in which religious ties, transcendent attitudes, expectations of life in the afterlife, ritual actions and established patterns disappeared in private and public life. In doing so, one should not refer to data, certainly very easily understandable in the empirical-statistical sense, data about institutional affiliations and influences that are in principle more inert than their motivational basis in the subjective world. While it used to be common language to complain that the world was "increasingly secular", today it is claimed that the New Age is a period of pure "secularism", and that its state is, accordingly, secular.
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