Abstract

STERN, Fábio Leandro  and  MILANI, Bianca de Fiori. Analysis of anthroposophic bibliographies by Rudolf Steiner using the methodology of Benthal for implicit religions. REHMLAC [online]. 2017, vol.9, n.1, pp.183-209. ISSN 1659-4223.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rehmlac.v9i1.27667.

This paper aims to discuss anthroposophy, which does not consider itself as a form of religion, but seems to suit some definitions of religion and spirituality prevailing within the academic studies of religion. Using Benthall’s methodology of analysis, it seeks to verify how far anthroposophy would deny its religious dimension, but nevertheless acts socially as a religion, which would characterize it as an implicit religion. Of the nineteen categories of analysis, fifteen were found distributed in the books we surveyed. This case is an example of the decline of the influence of religion in cultural spheres and can be seen as a possible pursuit for social legitimacy in response to a secular society, which treats knowledge derived from religious fields with suspicion.

Keywords : Anthroposophy; Implicit religion; Parareligion; Rudolf Steiner; Jonathan Benthall..

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