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Summary
This book shows the interconnections between postmodernism, religion, politics, economics, and art. It shows that the awareness of interconnectedness is at the center of the postmodern sensibility. Sacred Interconnections illustrates the rejection of the modern idea that these subjects can be discussed as separate disciplines.
While the term "postmodern" has been widely used for deconstructive, cynical, even nihilistic attitude, especially in the world of art and literature, the book represents the emergence of a reconstructive, reenchanting postmodernism, even within the artistic and literary circles.
David Ray Griffin is professor of philosophy of religion at the School of Theology at Claremont and Claremont Graduate School, executive director of the Center for Process Studies, and founding president of the Center for a Postmodern World. He is the author of God and Religion in the Postmodern World, Varieties of Postmodern Theology (with William A. Beardslee and Joe Holland), and Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology (with Huston Smith) and the editor of Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time, The Reenchantment of Science, and Spirituality and Society, also published by SUNY Press.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Sacred Interconnections
David Ray Griffin
2. A Mystical Cosmology: Toward a Postmodern Spirituality
Matthew Fox
3. The Ecological Self: Postmodern Ground for Right Action
Joanna Macy
4. The Only Survivable World: A Postmodern Systems Approach to a Religious Intuition
Bernard J. Lee
5. Warriors, Women, and the Nuclear Complex: Toward a Postnuclear Postmodernity
Catherine Keller
6. Religion and Politics: Verging on the Postmodern
Richard Falk
7. Family, Work, and Culture: A Postmodern Recovery of Holiness
Joe Holland
8. From Individualism to Persons in Community: A Postmodern Economic Theory
John B. Cobb, Jr.
9. Escape from Modernism: In Science, Religion, Politics, and Art
Frederick Turner
10. Stories in the Postmodern World: Orienting and Disorienting
William A. Beardslee
11. The Reenchantment of Art: Reflections on the Two Postmodernisms
Suzi Gablik
12. Postmodernism and Aesthetic Symbolism in Japanese Shingon Buddhism
