Postmod And Religion Flashcards
What are the studies for postmodernism and religion ?
- zygmunt Bauman : religion and choice
- David Lyon: Jesus in Disneyland
- Hervieu-Leger: spiritual shopping and individualisation
- Tara Isabella Burton : remixed religion
What does Zygmunt Bauman : religion and choice not accept ?
Do not accept universal truth
Zygmunt Bauman : religion and choice
Instead what do people want / accept ?
But instead have choice on what you want to believe
Zygmunt Bauman : religion and choice
How has morality become ?
Privatised matter of individual preference
Zygmunt Bauman : religion and choice
What do people want ?
Expert guidance on what rules to accept
Zygmunt Bauman : religion and choice
Due to choice what do people gain ?
Religious pluralism
Zygmunt Bauman : religion and choice
Due to religious pluralism, what does it mean ?
People can mix different beliefs together
David Lyon : Jesus in Disneyland
What two points does Lyon make for consumer society ?
Dedifferentation and consumerism
David Lyon : Jesus in Disneyland (differentation)
How does Lyon see religious beliefs , popular culture or media as?
Diminishing
David Lyon : Jesus in Disneyland (differentation)
What does Lyon see as diminishing?
Religious beliefs, popular culture and media
David Lyon : Jesus in Disneyland (differentation)
How are religious practises ?
Lifted out of normal context
David Lyon : Jesus in Disneyland (differentation)
Example of religious practices moved out of normal context?
Physical church moves to media
David Lyon : Jesus in Disneyland (differentation)
Since physical church moved to media what does it mean ?
People can chose to practise religion on own convenience
David Lyon : Jesus in Disneyland (consumerism)
What have people not abandoned ?
Religion
David Lyon : Jesus in Disneyland (consumerism)
How has religion become ?
Religion has relocated to sphere of consumption
David Lyon : Jesus in Disneyland (consumerism)
What have People become ?
Conscious consumers
David Lyon : Jesus in Disneyland (consumerism)
Due to people becoming conscious consumers what do they choose ?
- Choosing to relate to bits of religion they find useful
- Choosing religion narrative that appeals to them
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation
People of today have become what ?
Spiritual shoppers
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation , people have become spiritual shoppers where ?
In a religious marketplace
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation , if people of today have become spiritual shoppers in a religious market place what does it lead to ?
Pick and mix of religious identities
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation
What has happened in Europe ?
Dramatic decline in institutional religion
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation
Why is there a decline of religious institutions in Europe ?
Due to cultural amnesia
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation
What is cultural amnesia?
Loss of collective memory on importance of organised religion
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation
What does she agree on religion ?
Religion hasn’t disappeared
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation
What does she agree on about religion ?
Religion hasn’t disappeared
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation
What does she argue on instead ?
Individual consumerism has replaced collective tradition
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation
What has replaced collective tradition?
Individual consumerism
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation
What does she argue about religion now ?
More individualised in postmodernism society
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation
What does she mean by religion being more individualised in postmodernism society?
People can construct their own unique religious belief rather than it being imposed by organised religion
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation
What approach does religion have ?
Do it yourself
According to Hervieu-Leger : spiritual shopping and individualisation
What does the do it yourself religious approach allow ?
Allows people to explore spirituality at their own time and way
Tara Isabella Burton: remixed religion
What did she argue there had been ?
Rise of remixed religion and intutional religion
Tara Isabella Burton: remixed religion
Due to rise in remixed religion and intuitional religion what did this lead to ?
Mixing and matching of religious practices
Tara Isabella Burton: remixed religion
What two Factors reinforces remixed religion?
Rise of consumer capitalist
And
advent of the internet
Tara Isabella Burton: remixed religion
What two factors reinforce remixed religion?
Rise of consumer capitalism
AND
the advent of the internet
Tara Isabella Burton: remixed religion
What two factors reinforces remixed religion?
Rise of consumer capitalism
AND
The advent of the internet
Tara Isabella Burton: remixed religion
What does these two factors Instill in people?
Instills expectations for the sacred in the same way we seek romance
Tara Isabella Burton: remixed religion
Example of being part of remixed religion ?
Harry Potter fan culture it’s a public commitment to a tribe . Tribal identity
Tara Isabella Burton: remixed religion
For people in these subcultures what is there involvement driven by ?
Same motives that draw people to religion
Tara Isabella Burton: remixed religion
What Do people in this subculture want?
Community , purpose and Sense of the World
What are the evaluation of postmodernism?
- exaggerating choice
- are we truly postmodernism?
- exaggerating individualisation
- ignoring social structure
What is exaggeration of choice evaluation?
Some people cannot make choices on religion like others e.g In Saudi Arabia conversion from Islam is punishable for death
Also ethnocentric- focused on European one
What does are we truly postmodernism evaluation say ?
Post mod says we have Abandoned metanarrative and moved beyond universal truths but Christianity and Islam growing worldwide
What does the exaggerating individualisation evaluation say ?
Postmodernism underestimate continuity power of group identity based on social class , age , ethnicity and nationality
W/C more religious than M/C
What does ignoring social structure evaluation say ?
Tend to ignore extent which religion has shaped society as a whole for women, working class which limits postmodernism power
