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POSTMODERNISM AND THE SACRED: RECLAIMING CONNECTION IN OUR GREATER‐THAN‐HUMAN WORLDS
Author(s) -
Moules Nancy J.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2000.tb00292.x
Subject(s) - postmodernism , obligation , social connectedness , sociology , aesthetics , sacrifice , psychology , psychoanalysis , epistemology , social psychology , philosophy , law , theology , political science
This article addresses the many faces of postmodernism and offers the critique that postmodernism taken up in a particular extremist way can tend to sacrifice the sacred, the spiritual, and the recognition of our “greater than human” worlds in a quest for the particular. In response to this critique, I speak to a postmodern family therapy practice that is informed by values of connectedness, community, and communion; enacted through love and pragmatics; and committed to recognition of our obligation to ecological practice.