FUNDAMENTALISM: The Only Way to Redeem Religious Ethics?

Both modernism and Post-modernism have challenged religion and religious ethics. Modernism - which is a continuation of the Enlightenment and humanism - made the human, who is rational, autonomous and self-determining, the centre and measure of everything. Modernism’s emphasis on the power of reason...

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Autore principale: Kochuthara, Shaji George (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: 2010
In: Journal of Dharma
Anno: 2010, Volume: 35, Fascicolo: 4, Pagine: 337-354
Altre parole chiave:B Christian Fundamentalism
B Centrality of Love
B Fundamentalism
B Love and Sharing
B Religious Ethics
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Riepilogo:Both modernism and Post-modernism have challenged religion and religious ethics. Modernism - which is a continuation of the Enlightenment and humanism - made the human, who is rational, autonomous and self-determining, the centre and measure of everything. Modernism’s emphasis on the power of reason and an all-powerful scientific knowledge pushed religion and religious ethics into the periphery, making it something inferior and superfluous. Post-modernity with its rejection of any system, structure, order and control and with its conception of everything as provisional has challenged again the validity of religious ethics which often speak about norms and values which are perennial and which have universal validity.The Post-modernist era is sometimes described as Post-religious and Post-moral. Liberalism and neo-liberalism promoted by modernism and post-modernism defend unlimited individual liberty, emancipation of the individual from beliefs which are not rationally proved, and liberation from religious and political authorities.
ISSN:0253-7222
Comprende:Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma