Anonymous ID: a81684 Jan. 12, 2019, 3:45 a.m. No.4723433   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Postmodern Religion and the Faith of Social Justice

Posted onDecember 18, 201864 minute readbyJames A. Lindsay and Mike Nayna

Increasingly, we are seeing insistences that Social Justice has become a new religion. The purpose of this essay is to explore this topic in some depth. Because this essay is inordinately long—because the topic is inordinately complicated—it is broken into sections, as listed below. The reader is encouraged to engage with it in pieces and to treat it as he or she would a short book on this topic.

 

Table of Contents

Social Justice and Religion – What I intend to say and not say about whether Social Justice is best thought of as a religion—mostly housekeeping and a bit dry

Ideologically Motivated Moral Communities – A Durkheimian view of the religion-like sociocultural phenomenon to which both Social Justice and religions belong

Religions Meet Needs – An elaboration on the previous section that explains why human beings organize into ideologically motivated moral communities

Social Justice Institutionalized – A presentation of how Social Justice exhibits institutionalization, which is central to organized religions

The Scholarly Canon – How academic scholarship in “grievance studies” serves as a scriptural canon for Social Justice

Faith in Social Justice – An exposition on faith and its role in the Social Justice ideology

The Mythological Core of Applied Postmodernism – A lengthy discussion of mythology inside and outside of religion and how postmodernism and its currently ascendant derivatives fit into this framework. (If you really want to understand the deepest part of this essay, it’s probably in this section, which can be read first if desired.)

Pocket Epistemologies – A discussion of the means by which an ideological tribe aims to legitimize the “special knowledge” that serves it and how this manifests in Social Justice

A Focus on the Unconscious – A more focused discussion upon the methods of special knowledge production of ideological tribes and the postmodern numinous experience

Ritual, Redemption, and Prayer – A short section about the role these play in ideological tribes and how they manifest in Social Justice

Gender Nuns and the Grand Wizards of the Diversity Board – Addresses the function of the priest caste within ideological tribes, including Social Justice, and how they put their faith into practice

Summary – A short summary of the case made about whether Social Justice constitutes a religion. TL;DR: Yes and no, and mostly yes.

What Can We Do with This? – A brief discussion of secularism, construed much more broadly than usual, and how it applies to dealing with a very religion-like Social Justice

 

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Anonymous ID: a81684 Jan. 12, 2019, 4:08 a.m. No.4723492   🗄️.is đź”—kun

lots of good ideas…

just one that I'm watching @17m is the epistomological difference and goals between post-modernism and marxism, disintegration/deconstructions vs. totalitarianism.