RT Article
T1 FUNDAMENTALISM: The Only Way to Redeem Religious Ethics?
JF Journal of Dharma
VO 35
IS 4
SP 337
OP 354
A1 Kochuthara, Shaji George
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1837807183
AB 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.
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