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Summary
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.
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
