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The Emerging Church And Global Civil Society: Postmodern Christianity As A Source For Global Values, Aaron Stuvland
The Emerging Church And Global Civil Society: Postmodern Christianity As A Source For Global Values, Aaron Stuvland
Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics
The subject of this essay is the relationship of religion, as a source of values, to the construction of a more robust global values discourse. A specific focus is how religion, specifically Christianity, is influenced by postmodernism to better inform normative thinking on global civil society (GCS). To this end, I argue that religion's role in the global values discourse is enhanced by a dynamic process of adaptation and transformation as part of the larger process of globalization. 1 Significantly, religion is not simply back as the "re-enchantment" and "de-secularization" literature contends but also manifesting in fundamentally new and potentially …