Sacred Interconnections: Postmodern Spirituality, Political Economy, and ArtThis book shows the interconnections between postmodernism, religion, politics, economics, and art. It shows that the awareness of interconnectedness is at the center of the postmodern sensibility. Sacred Interconnections illustrates the rejection of the modern idea that these subjects can be discussed as separate disciplines. While the term "postmodern" has been widely used for deconstructive, cynical, even nihilistic attitude, especially in the world of art and literature, the book represents the emergence of a reconstructive, reenchanting postmodernism, even within the artistic and literary circles. |
Contents
Introduction Sacred Interconnections | 1 |
The Ecological Self Postmodern Ground for Right Action | 35 |
The Only Survivable World A Postmodern Systems Approach to a Religious Intuition | 49 |
Warriors Women and the Nuclear Complex Toward a Postnuclear Postmodernity | 63 |
Religion and Politics Verging on the Postmodern | 83 |
Family Work and Culture A Postmodern Recovery of Holiness | 103 |
From Individualism to Persons in Community A Postmodern Economic Theory | 123 |
Escape from Modernism In Science Religion Politics and Art | 143 |
Stories in the Postmodern World Orienting and Disorienting | 163 |
The Reenchantment of Art Reflections on the Two Postmodernisms | 177 |
Postmodernism and Aesthetic Symbolism in Japanese Shingon Buddhism | 193 |
Notes on Contributors and Centers | 217 |
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