Post-secularism, religious knowledge and religious education
Post-secularism seems to follow in the wake of other (what are here called) ‘postal’ perspectives - post-structuralism, postmodernism, post-empiricism, post-positivism, post-analytical philosophy, post-foundationalism and so on - in questioning or repudiating what it takes to be the epistemic assump...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2012
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| In: |
Journal of beliefs and values
Year: 2012, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 157-168 |
| Further subjects: | B
Narratives
B Education B Texts B Post-secularism |
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| Summary: | Post-secularism seems to follow in the wake of other (what are here called) ‘postal’ perspectives - post-structuralism, postmodernism, post-empiricism, post-positivism, post-analytical philosophy, post-foundationalism and so on - in questioning or repudiating what it takes to be the epistemic assumptions of ‘modernism.’ To be sure, post-secularism is especially concerned with one particular assumed implication of modernism - namely that there can be no epistemic warrant for religious faith or belief. While sympathetic to the post-secularist attempt to rehabilitate religious faith and commitment, this article considers three possible philosophical bases for the justification or dismissal of religious belief - pre-modernism, modernism and ‘postal’ perspectives - finding them all wanting. In their stead, the article develops a narrative account of religious meaning and understanding. On this view, religious texts, stories and myths - like other non-scientific narratives of wider literary and artistic culture - are crucial to the spiritual and moral cultivation of practical wisdom. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9362 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of beliefs and values
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2012.694059 |
