Spirituality and Society: Postmodern Visions

by David Ray Griffin (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887068546
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	08/29/1988
Series:	SUNY series in Constructive Postmodern Thought
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Ray Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the School of Theology at Claremont. He is also Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies and founding president of the Center for a Postmodern World in Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction: Postmodern Spirituality and Society

David Ray Griffin

2. Postmodern Directions

Charlene Spretnak

3. A Postmodern Vision of Spirituality and Society

Joe Holland

4. Toward a Postpatriarchal Postmodernity

Catherine Keller

5. In Pursuit of the Postmodern

Richard A. Falk

6. Postmodern Social Policy

John B. Cobb, Jr.

7. The Steady-State Economy: Postmodern Alternative to Growthmania

Herman F. Daly

8. Agriculture in a Postmodern World

C. Dean Freudenberger

9. Toward a Postmodern Science and Technology

Frederick Ferré

10. Peace and the Postmodern Paradigm

David Ray Griffin

Notes on Contributors and Centers

Index

Editorial Reviews

Provides a critique of various aspects of modern society: political, economic, social, agricultural, and technological. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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