June 2016
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Recently, Schleiermacher's On Religion has been attacked by contemporary scholars of religion as showing a form of subjectivism that has characteristics from those of Hegel and Barth. These scholars think that religion according to Schleiermacher is a purely private affair, that it is restricted to the interior of the religious individual, and is insulated altogether from the public, observable realm of society, culture, and history. The paper criticizes this view In author's opinion, religious feeling must be connected to the worldview that reality is a universal network of interdependence as laid out in On Religion. As religious feeling as there described is not only the perception of the relationships, but also leads to the creation of new relationships through communication of feeling, it necessarily leads to a religious society. On the other hand, the depiction of a religious society cannot be separated from that of religious feeling, because it must actually be based on the communication of religious feeling, and becomes the natural product of that religious feeling Furthermore, the main characteristic of a religious society is determined by that of the communication of religious feeling.