Spirituality and Society: Postmodern VisionsThis book takes a genuinely new spiritual stance reflecting the emergence of a post-modern science and differing from the relativistic nihilism that calls itself postmodern but is really modernism extended to its limit. Based on a direct experience of reality as divine, this postmodern spirituality transcends modernity's individualism and patriarchy, its forced choices between dualism and materialism, anthropocentrism and relativism, supernaturalism and atheism, intolerance and nihilism. Bringing moral and ethical values back into rational discourse, this book provides a critique of various aspects of modern society--political, economic, social, agricultural, and technological aspects. This criticism, informed by the postmodern worldview, points toward a more satisfying form of personal existence and a sustainable form of global order. |
Contents
Postmodern | 1 |
Postmodern Directions | 33 |
A Postmodern Vision of Spirituality | 41 |
Toward a Postpatriarchal Postmodernity | 63 |
In Pursuit of the Postmodern | 81 |
Postmodern Social Policy | 99 |
Agriculture in a Postmodern World | 123 |
Toward a Postmodern Science and Technology | 133 |
Peace and the Postmodern Paradigm | 143 |
Notes on Contributors and Centers | 155 |
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| Title | Spirituality and Society: Postmodern Visions SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought |
| Author | David Ray Griffin |
| Editor | David Ray Griffin |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SUNY Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0887068537, 9780887068539 |
| Length | 162 pages |
| Subjects | › History / General |
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