Postmodern spirituality
Encyclopedia
Postmodern spirituality refers to new forms of spirituality in the contexts of postmodern
societies in a globalised world. Former universalistic worldviews of modernity become contested, old explanations and certainties questioned.
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards a global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the...
societies in a globalised world. Former universalistic worldviews of modernity become contested, old explanations and certainties questioned.
Further reading
- Ahlbäck, Tore (ed.) (2009): Postmodern spirituality. (based on papers read at the Symposium on Postmodern Spirituality, held at Åbo, Finland, on 11 - 13 June 2008)
- Benedikter, Roland (2006): Postmodern spirituality. A dialogue in five parts - Part V: Can Only A God Save Us? Postmodern Proto-Spirituality And The Current Global Turn To Religion. (online)
- Griffin, David RayDavid Ray GriffinDavid Ray Griffin is a retired American professor of philosophy of religion and theology. Along with John B. Cobb, Jr., he founded the Center for Process Studies in 1973, a research center of Claremont School of Theology which seeks to promote the common good by means of the relational approach...
(1988): Spirituality and society : postmodern visions. Albany.
- Griffin, David RayDavid Ray GriffinDavid Ray Griffin is a retired American professor of philosophy of religion and theology. Along with John B. Cobb, Jr., he founded the Center for Process Studies in 1973, a research center of Claremont School of Theology which seeks to promote the common good by means of the relational approach...
(1989): God and religion in the postmodern world: essays in postmodern theology. New York
- King, Ursula (1998): "Spirituality in a postmodern age: faith and praxis in new contexts". In: King, Ursula (ed.) (1998): Faith and Praxis in a Postmodern Age. London.
- Muldoon, Tim (2005): Postmodern spirituality and the Ignatian Fundamentum. (short review)(full text)
- Hart, Kevin (ed.) (2005): The experience of God. A postmodern response. New York.