New Spirituality and Postmodernism Quiz Flashcards
T/F: According to New Spirituality, the universe began with the Big Bang
False
Modernism is characterized by ____, ______, _____, and ______ as well as ______
belief in human reason, empiricism, science, technological progress, skepticism towards religion
What is the political philosophy that links the oppression of women and the exploitation of the environment?
Ecofeminism
T/F: Postmodernists accept the notion of universal objective reason
False
T/F: According to postmodernism, there is no meaning in the text
True
T/F: New spiritualists believe we can be free from the illusion of self through achieving enlightenment
True
According to postmodernism, language functions as
A tool for power and manipulation
T/F: According to postmodernism, universal truth can be known
False
What is the environmental philosophy that contends that all living creatures should have legal rights?
Deep ecology
T/F: According to postmodernism, words are about things
False
Karma
The belief that good is returned to those who do good and vice versa
T/F: The God of new spirituality is a personal force
False
T/F: Postmodernism asserts that all worldviews offer unbiased truth claims about reality
False
New spiritualists believe we can be temporarily free from the illusion of self through
yoga and meditation
T/F: According to new spirituality, the source of religion isn’t God, it’s unconsciousness
False
According to postmodernism, truth is
Socially constructed
Anti-realism
belief that denies the existence or accessibility of an objective reality
According to postmodernism, ____, _____, and ____ affect how we see the world
Culture, language, gender
Three reality facts from new spirituality
Reality is eternal, reality is non-personal, reality is divine
T/F: The Bhagavad Gita is the Hindu text that chronicles the conversations between Arjuna and Krishna
True
T/F: Postmodernists claim that the notion of objective truth is used to oppress others
True
_______ said “God is dead.”
Nietzsche
T/F: New spiritualists accept the secular philosophy of materialism
False
T/F: According to new spirituality, the source of our suffering is our ignorance re: consciousness
True
Pantheism
belief that everything is God
_____ has not contributed to new spirituality
Eastern religion
_____, ________, _______, and ______ have contributed to new spirituality
Pop psychology, self-help teaching, scientific materialism, meditation
T/F: Nietzsche predicted that once we killed our belief in God, truth, meaning, and morality would continue to exist
False
T/F: Postmodernists don’t believe we can have objective knowledge
True
Postmodernists doubt the objectivity of ______, ______, and _______
Evolutionary biology, science, math
Reincarnation
Process by which the body passes away but the soul continues its quest for enlightenment in another form
