THE HISTORICAL PARADIGM OF THE ALBANIAN BEKTASHI AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE

Abstract

Research and discoveries in both social and natural sciences, at the end of the 19th century and during the 20th century, gave a special impetus to the issue of change, development and reconstruction, by also bringing forth a dynamic frame of mind on the social, universal and religious plan. Such a state has inevitably open doors to the rethinking, reconsidering and reconstructing the fundamental religious concepts. Religious situation in today’s world is characterized by two extremely mutually opposite points: on one side there is radicalism and militant fanaticism – which are not even bothered by killing civilians, even if they come across people belonging to another religious, whereas on the other hand the religious negligence and the syncretic belief, faith from time to time characterized by the mysterious esoterism and okultism. The contemporary man, and within the context known as the homo Balkanicus by a greater intensity, being preoccupied with himself and his personal destiny. He subjugates to his personal fate his social obligations and communal solidarity. As days go by, he grows into a lonely narcissus. Man, in the presence of modernity and post-modernity has experiences two liberalist principles: individualization and pluralism, which whether one likes it or not, enjoined in the building of the religious ideology. Each one who ventures to discern religious analyses shall confront a turbulence of authorization and individualism within the plurality as religious as well as that fractional and separated in groups. Since religion, in most cases, became the veil and the mask of the nonreligious stand points and movements. We come across the nonreligious movements even in our everyday life in a very radicalized and occult sense, yet we also notice them i the authentic religious seek as well as hither the acquaint for the absoluteness of faith and religious orthopraxis.