Religious legitimization of the temporal order

The category of legitimization mainly refers to the sphere of politics and power. It means validation and justification. The article intends to outline the perspective of religion as a factor of legitimation in social life, and the concept of legitimisation itself wants to be treated metaphorically. It refers mainly to Max Weber and his analyses of religion and religious attitudes in collective, social and political life. Religion is often perceived only as a social phenomenon, or even only through the prism of a certain human project. For some sociologists, religious legitimization in relation to events in the profanum sphere gives them meaning and makes them important for individuals and communities. The article also points out how such aspirations are often quite reductive, because they only emphasize the purely human, temporal and earthly meaning of religious reality, and the phenomenon of religion is treated instrumentally.