Hermeneutics of Religious Alienation, and Its Spiritual Cure

Religious alienation and its spiritual remedies represent significant contemporary religious and philosophical concerns. This research endeavors to elucidate the concept of religious alienation, explore its epistemological contexts, and analyze its diverse interpretations within Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thought. Furthermore, it investigates the manifestations and associated pathologies of religious alienation, alongside approaches to its spiritual treatment. This study seeks to address several key questions: What constitutes religious alienation, and how has it evolved? What are its primary epistemological contexts? How has religious alienation been interpreted across Jewish, Christian, and Islamic intellectual traditions? What are the observable manifestations of religious alienation, and what are the significant pathologies it can engender? Finally, what constitutes an effective spiritual treatment for this phenomenon? The research will primarily employ hermeneutical and analytical methodologies. Key findings indicate that the hermeneutical extremism of religious alienation fosters the phenomenon of atheism. This is because the actualization of religious alienation serves as compelling evidence for the perceived irrationality of faith, in addition to conceptualizing God as unjust and sacrificing free will. Such outcomes contradict the fundamental tenets of any monotheistic religion. These pathologies pose a significant threat to human security and can only be mitigated by refuting such extremism and fanaticism while simultaneously promoting humanism.