Renașterea ocultismului în contextul unei lumi consumeriste: fenomenul Halloween în România

Abstract

It is easily noticeable today the almost total disinterest of christians towards their mystical application into the public divine cult. It is observed a bizarre phenomenon: the revival of the ocult by promoting some forms of neo-paganism mixed with formal aspects of traditional christianity and supported by fiction elements from postmodern literature and cinematography, belonging to the SF genus. An eloquent example is the celebration called Halloween, extremely spread in the United States of America through the chain of consumer globalism which has reached all the countries of the world, including in Romania, where it experienced a fast development, in a relatively short time. The present study aims to analyze this phenomenon from the perspective of the Contextual Missiology, with the major purpose of sounding an alarm bell on the prolifiration of the ocultism in Romania. The study will demonstrate that, socially, in Romania there is now an aggressive form of individualism, which leads to the creation of some froms of religion of its own, false. These are facets of postmodernism, destructive by consumer policies and hedonistic mentalities that characterize the world we live in, which is in a spiritual collapse.