From secular temporality to post-secular timelessness: trekking the past's future and future's past

Authors

Gregory C. Melleuish, University of WollongongFollow
Susanna G. RizzoFollow

RIS ID

80562

Publication Details

Melleuish, G. C. & Rizzo, S. G. (2013). From secular temporality to post-secular timelessness: trekking the past's future and future's past. Telos, (163 Summer 2013), 39-60.

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Telos

Abstract

It can be argued that we are currently living in a time characterized by a widespread perception of “discontinuity,” of a rupture in historical continuity. This rupture appears to have been brought about by the alleged demise of the secular paradigm, underpinning the Enlightenment project of modernity, caused by the outbreak of religious fervor and spirituality at the dawn of the new millennium. The perceived rupture in the natural progression of secular modernity has led to the questioning of the assumed link of modernity and secularity1 and to the critique of Enlightenment theories and postulates regarding the disenchantment of the world.