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...

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1. VerfasserIn: Keenan, William J. F. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Equinox [2012]
In: Implicit religion
Jahr: 2012, Band: 15, Heft: 1, Seiten: 5-24
weitere Schlagwörter: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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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1743-1697
Enthält:Enthalten in: Implicit religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/imre.v15i1.5