1. Updating Religion (w/ Lene Rachel Andersen)
Metamodern Meaning
Interpreting Symbolic Narratives in Different Eras
Meta modernity provides a framework for understanding the evolution of human interpretation from pre-modern religious beliefs to modern scientific rationality. It suggests that past religious texts and rituals may have been symbolic narratives that people of that time actually comprehended symbolically, not literally. The challenge lies in accepting and deciphering these symbolic narratives in today's scientific and rational context.
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