Crisi della fede routinaria

The transition from «religious faith» to «systemic trust» has allowed postmodern society to recover the «religioid» energies essential to its own preservation. Recent signs of a deep cultural and social crisis in the West indicate that a new transformation is under way, a transformation that seems to affect the basic strategy of systemic trust, that is, the «routine». After analyzing the passages that marked this trajectory, as rebuilt by authors like Durkheim, Weber, Luhmann and Berger, recent events (the economic crisis, migrations, and fundamentalist terrorism) are analyzed as potentially «detonator» elements, capable to severely jeopardize our «social future». The final insights offer interpretative keys potentially capable of identifying the «re-constructive» side of this routine confidence crisis.