Abstract
Former studies on the religiosity of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke show highly divergent results: The religious educationalist Anton Bucher draws on the basis of the analysis of structural genetics the conclusion that Rilke had been a very mature religious personality. The literary scholar Eudo C. Mason who works with psycho-dynamical criteria classifies him as a pure narcist and atheist. These two differing interpretations on Rilke's religiosity are brought to a new synthesis in my integrative model. This kind of religiosity is widely spread in our western society.
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