Modern Religions For A Lonely World
people can assert that they are spiritual but not religious only because the what has been replaced completely by the how, to a level that would make even Calvin or Luther blush.10
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
To DIY your own world of life signifiers, you have to think you can improve on a
bar mitzvah
as a coming-of-age ritual, on shabbat as a form of digital detox, and as
teshuvah
as a way to grapple with your guilt (or analogs in other religious traditions). Many do of course, and every trendy San Franciscan has their personal regimen of special diets, ... See more
bar mitzvah
as a coming-of-age ritual, on shabbat as a form of digital detox, and as
teshuvah
as a way to grapple with your guilt (or analogs in other religious traditions). Many do of course, and every trendy San Franciscan has their personal regimen of special diets, ... See more
Antonio García Martínez • Why Judaism?
when you create a social reality with no connection to a deeper divine essence, and not alignment to a value greater than itself, you get lost in a maze where essential human values and relationships are mimicked endlessly and blindly in a chaos of hollow repetition. Then, as now, the only way out is to connect to the sacred; to an experience that ... See more
Alexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
It turns out, then, that the individualism of modern culture does not necessarily lead to a decline in religion. Rather, it leads to a decline of inherited religion, the sort one is born into.75 Religion that wanes comes with one’s assigned national or ethnic identity, as in “You are Indian, so you are Hindu; you are Norwegian, so you’re Lutheran;
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