Dyskretny urok pierwotnych form życia religijnego

Abstract

Zbigniew Drozdowicz – THE SUBTLE CHARM OF ARCHAIC FORMS OF RELIGIOUS LIFE We are unable to answer the basic question about what was and what is important in arc-haic forms of religious life attracting attention since the ancient times, and even today by various kind of philosophers and scholars. Nevertheless, we might show, on selected examples, what are these points of reference for and what function did they serve in its often intellectually sophisti-cated remarks. We may also formulate on this basis some general conclusions, such as a thesis, that some of these philosophers and scholars did judge it as a troublemaking gift from the past, and some others as a good capital for the present and the future. Not just the evaluations of the archaic forms of religious life differed, but also motivations hidden behind them, philosophical and religious, taken and postulated values etc. In this article I present just a part of the differen-tiated background for this evaluation, but it was and still is much richer. It also worth a more deeper philosophical, psychological, sociological and religious analysis as the analysis of the archaic forms of religious life.