Postmodernist Relativism: A Return to Polytheism?
(2018) The Maastricht Journal of Liberal Arts — Vol. 10, n° 1, p. 57-68 (2018)
Files
OrtizCabrero2018-PostmodernistRelativismAReturntoPolytheism.pdf
Open Access - Adobe PDF
- 131.63 KB
Details
- Authors
- Abstract
- Despite distancing themselves from traditional religions, (Western) post-secular societies are still heavily concerned with ‘spirituality’ and other forms of self-realisation. Within our working postmodernist framework, where ‘truth’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘God’ are found to be relative, this concern often translates into a combination of religiously inspired practices – such as (Hinduist) yoga or (Buddhist) meditation – and a scientific, modern approach to the knowledge of the world. Can this coexistence of practices be a new kind of polytheism? This paper shows that postmodernist, relativistic belief systems share the poly-, or multiplicity of approaches to life and reality, but not the -theist, or conceptualisation of their beliefs as ‘divine’.
- Affiliations
Citations
Ortiz Cabrero, L. (2018). Postmodernist Relativism: A Return to Polytheism? The Maastricht Journal of Liberal Arts, 10(1), 57-68. https://doi.org/10.26481/mjla.2018.v10.581 (Original work published 2018)