Tag: postmodernity
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Jean Francois Lyotard: The Postmodern Condition
the postmodern condition is a mindset sceptical about universal truths and which embraces relativist knowledges and uncertainty.
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LifeLines – A Perfect Example of a Postmodern Approach to Religion
Lifelines: Notes on Life and Love, Faith and Doubt is a new book published in November 2018 written by Martin Rowe and Malcolm Doney, and to my mind it’s a perfect expression of a postmodern approach to religious belief. The two authors are (respectively) a volunteer priest and one volunteer vicar in their local parishes,…
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Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times
David Lyon argues that religion is not declining with the shift from modernity to postmodernity, rather it is simply relocating to the ‘sphere of consumption’ as people selectively choose which aspects different religions to use at different points in their lives. David Lyon suggests there are two main social changes which characterize the shift from…
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Anthony Giddens – High Modernity and Religious Revival
Anthony Giddens argues that the shift to late modern society results in religion becoming more popular. Giddens is one of four ‘sociologists of postmodernity’, all of whom argue that postmodernisation results in the nature of religion changing, but not necessarily declining in importance. NB – see this post (forthcoming) on how to avoid getting confused…
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The Condition of Postmodernity (David Harvey): A Summary of Chapter Five
A summary of David Harvey’s (1989) The Condition of Postmodernity’: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Cultural Change. This is a summary of chapter five. You like to read my summaries of chapters one and two and three first of all: Click here for chapter 1 summary Click here for chapter 2 summary Click here…
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The Condition of Postmodernity, David Harvey: Chapter 3: Postmodernism, A Summary
A summary of David Harvey’s (1989) The Condition of Postmodernity’: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Cultural Change. This is a summary of chapter three. You like to read my summaries of chapter one and two first of all: Click here for chapter 1 summary Click here for chapter 2 summary Most would agree with…
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The Condition of Postmodernity, Chapter 1 Summary
A summary of chapter one of David Harvey’s (1989) Condition of Postmodernity
