Competing Orthodoxies in the Public Square: Postmodernism's Effect on Church-State Separation
One scholar marks postmodernism's birth with the demolition of a housing project that had been designed with the best principles enlightened science and architecture had to offer. Residents found it uninhabitable. Local government found it impossible to police. What had once been heralded as a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2005
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 2005, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 97-121 |
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| Summary: | One scholar marks postmodernism's birth with the demolition of a housing project that had been designed with the best principles enlightened science and architecture had to offer. Residents found it uninhabitable. Local government found it impossible to police. What had once been heralded as a magnificent achievement and a boon to the poor ended as a pile of rubble.Another author claims postmodernism was born when the Berlin Wall fell under the picks and hammers of those who had been hemmed in by the "scientific" ideology it stood for as well as the real blocks and mortar that long separated East and West. When the wall fell, the regime founded on an explicit effort to shed the confines of religion and custom for revolutionary reason did not take long to die. The age of the totalitarian secular orthodoxy died with it. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/4144684 |