| Spirituality and Society: Postmodern Visions Contributor(s): Griffin, David Ray (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0887068545 ISBN-13: 9780887068546 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1988 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 909.828 |
| LCCN: 88001152 |
| Series: Suny Constructive Postmodern Thought |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.91" W x 8.99" (0.60 lbs) 162 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This 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. |