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Postmodern religion [1] [2] is any type of religion that is influenced by postmodernism and postmodern philosophies. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Examples of religions that may be interpreted using postmodern philosophy include Postmodern Christianity , [ 5 ] Postmodern Neopaganism, [ 6 ] and Postmodern Buddhism. [ 7 ]
Postmodernism is more fully understood by observing its effects in society at large, in such diverse fields as law, education, urban planning, religious studies, politics and many others. [163] Its influence varies widely across disciplines, reflecting the extent to which postmodern theories and ideas have been integrated into actual practices.
Postmodern theology, also known as the continental philosophy of religion, is a philosophical and theological movement that interprets Christian theology in light of postmodernism and various forms of post-Heideggerian thought, including post-structuralism, phenomenology, and deconstruction.
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Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical movement that arose in the second half of the 20th century as a critical response to assumptions allegedly present in modernist philosophical ideas regarding culture, identity, history, or language that were developed during the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment.
Postmodern theory (PM) in anthropology originated in the 1960s, along with the literary postmodern movement in general. Anthropologists working in this vein of inquiry seek to dissect, interpret and write cultural critiques.
Postmodernity (post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is the economic or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. [nb 1] Some schools of thought hold that modernity ended in the late 20th century – in the 1980s or early 1990s – and that it was replaced by postmodernity, and still others would extend modernity to cover the developments denoted by ...
In social theory, detraditionalization refers to the erosion of tradition in religion (secularization, agnosticism, religious disaffiliation) and society in postmodernism. Subscribing individuals in traditional societies believe in established, timeless, authoritative orders and values, above the individual, and timeless attainable goals. Such ...