Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy as a Secularized Religiosity

In this paper I wish to examine Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy as a secularized religiosity. By this term I refer to de-traditionalized substitutes of religions, catering for the needs of modern Europeans who renounced religions but still yearned for a source of meaning, identity and a non-scientific worldview. 
Steiner ventured to balance religious sources of inspiration and secular challenges and demands. This paper aims to explore Steiner’s ambivalent attitude to religion and his modern uses of religious traditions. Through the case of Anthroposophy, I argue, some basic features of secularized religions could be elucidated, namely a declared syncretism; the dichotomous separation between the “inner” and "outer" layers of religion; the turn to worldliness and the recurring preoccupation with questions of identity.