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VINKO O[LAK
Ali obstaja povezava med religijo in političnim sistemom?
Da obstaja tesna povezava med religijo in gospodarstvom, je že
pred dobršnim časom zelo prepričljivo analiziral eden očetov sodob-
ne sociologije Max Weber v svojem znamenitem delu Protestantska
etika in duh kapitalizma, ki ga imamo tudi v slovenskem prevodu. Da-
nes podobne raziskave nadaljuje znani sociolog Peter Berger, avstrij-
skega porekla, ki pa deluje na bostonski univerzi v Združenih državah,
njegov tesni sodelavec pa je polslovenec Thomas Luckmann. Prav
Berger je v nekem intervjuju povedal tole preprosto, a v slovenskem
okolju premalo znano ugotovitev:
»It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true el-
sewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capita-
lism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term. The
relationship doesn’t work symmetrically: there are capitalist societies
that are not democratic. But we don’t have an example of a democra-
tic society existing in a socialist economy – which is the only real al-
ternative to capitalism in the modern world. So I think one can say
on empirical grounds – not because of some philosophical principle
– that you can’t have democracy unless you have a market economy.«
Glede zanimivega primera kitajskega kapitalizma, ki deluje v raz-
merah klasične stalinistične diktature komunistične partije, pa Berger
pripominja:
»Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there’s no
democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market
economy without democracy.«
O zmoti sociologov 60. let, kjer priznava tudi lastno zmoto iz ti-
stega časa, kako sekularizacija, drugače povedano, upadanje vernosti,
spremlja razvoj družbe v smislu modernosti, pravi Berger:
»I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in
the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argu-
ment was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With
more modernization comes more secularization. It wasn’t a crazy
theory. There was some evidence for it. But I think it’s basically wrong.
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Ali obstaja povezava med religijo in političnim sistemom?
Da obstaja tesna povezava med religijo in gospodarstvom, je že
pred dobršnim časom zelo prepričljivo analiziral eden očetov sodob-
ne sociologije Max Weber v svojem znamenitem delu Protestantska
etika in duh kapitalizma, ki ga imamo tudi v slovenskem prevodu. Da-
nes podobne raziskave nadaljuje znani sociolog Peter Berger, avstrij-
skega porekla, ki pa deluje na bostonski univerzi v Združenih državah,
njegov tesni sodelavec pa je polslovenec Thomas Luckmann. Prav
Berger je v nekem intervjuju povedal tole preprosto, a v slovenskem
okolju premalo znano ugotovitev:
»It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true el-
sewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capita-
lism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term. The
relationship doesn’t work symmetrically: there are capitalist societies
that are not democratic. But we don’t have an example of a democra-
tic society existing in a socialist economy – which is the only real al-
ternative to capitalism in the modern world. So I think one can say
on empirical grounds – not because of some philosophical principle
– that you can’t have democracy unless you have a market economy.«
Glede zanimivega primera kitajskega kapitalizma, ki deluje v raz-
merah klasične stalinistične diktature komunistične partije, pa Berger
pripominja:
»Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there’s no
democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market
economy without democracy.«
O zmoti sociologov 60. let, kjer priznava tudi lastno zmoto iz ti-
stega časa, kako sekularizacija, drugače povedano, upadanje vernosti,
spremlja razvoj družbe v smislu modernosti, pravi Berger:
»I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in
the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argu-
ment was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With
more modernization comes more secularization. It wasn’t a crazy
theory. There was some evidence for it. But I think it’s basically wrong.
199
