Chapter 1 POSTMODERNITY AND THE DOUBLE WALL
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1. | Title | Title of document | Chapter 1 POSTMODERNITY AND THE DOUBLE WALL - Earth, Empire and Sacred Text |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | David L. Johnston; Yale University; United States |
3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religious Studies |
4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | religious disputes; Islam; Christianity |
5. | Subject | Subject classification | BP1-253 Islam; BR115 Christianity in relation to special subjects |
6. | Description | Abstract | In this chapter I describe postmodernity—the current interconnected, global, neoliberal system of political and economic instruments, institu- tions and alliances—as the logical outcome of a chain of events in Western civilization: (1) the Western imperial drive from 1492 on to exploit foreign territories resulting in the dispossession of native populations; (2) the rise of capitalism, and especially its insistence on the commodification of public goods, which started, arguably, with the acquisition of land belonging to native peoples by Anglo-American settlers in the early eighteenth century; (3) and, much more recently, the post-Fordist, postindustrial and consumerist era arose out of the ashes of the post-World War II Bretton Woods arrangements that collapsed around 1970. |
7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Apr-2010 |
10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
11. | Type | Type | |
12. | Format | File format | |
13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/19275 |
14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.19275 |
15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Earth, Empire and Sacred Text |
16. | Language | English=en | en |
18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) | global |
19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |