Religion and Religiousness. Basic Notions for a Theoretical Framework

Abstract

The article synthesizes several conceptions of famous philosophers anthropologists sociologists and historians of religions such as Juan Martin Velasco Jean-Louis Veillard-Baron Marin Buber Jean-Jacques Wunenburger Mircea Eliade Lucian Blaga Aurel Codoban Horia Vicențiu Pătrașcu Costică Brădățan and others regarding the notions of religion religiosity religious experience religious attitude forming a theoretical framework for further applied analyses of the sacred imaginary in contemporary Bessarabian poetry which will form the content of future articles on this topic The focus is on the ways in which humans understand and relate to sacred objects phenomena The author sets out the essential aspects that delimit these notions outlining how religiosity changes its forms and contents how certain values become desacralized and others gain importance in contemporaneity.