Family Resemblances Twixt Implicit Religion and Post-modernity: A Fecund Framework for Engaging New Times
This article explores parallels and convergences between implicit religion and post-modernity. The elective affinity between them is considered as a constructive combined "take" on late modern religion, culture and society. The aim is primarily to identify some overlap, some family resembl...
| Published in: | Implicit religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2012]
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| In: |
Implicit religion
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| Further subjects: | B
third way
B Modernity B RESEMBLANCE (Philosophy) B liquidity B Sacrality B Families B Implicit Religion B Societies B Post-modernity B Post-secular |
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| Summary: | This article explores parallels and convergences between implicit religion and post-modernity. The elective affinity between them is considered as a constructive combined "take" on late modern religion, culture and society. The aim is primarily to identify some overlap, some family resemblances, between key post-modern concepts and a number of the central themata of implicit religion, construed as a perspective or point of view on the human social and cultural condition. Drawing upon a variety of contributors to post- modern theory and implicit religion studies, this meta-analysis illuminates ways in which the "third way" conception of sacrality (cf. Bailey), inherent in the implicit religion (IR) perspective, resonates with the "liquidity" (cf. Bauman) of post-modernity (POMO). This holistic IR-POMO point of view, it is suggested, offers a challenging heuristic alternative to the "static polarities" (cf. Elias) of "gnostic thought" (cf. Jonas), and a "post-secular" mode of creative resistance to modernist hyper-secularism. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.v15i1.5 |