Postmodernism and the sacred: Reclaiming connection in our greater-than-human worlds

From: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

This article addresses the many faces of postmodernism and offers the critique that postmodernism taken up in. a particular extremist way can tend to sacrifice the sacred, the spiritual, and the recognition of our "greater than human" worlds in a quest for the particular. In response to this critique, 1 speak to a postmodern family therapy practice that is informed by values of connectedness, community, and communion; enacted through love and pragmatics; and committed to recognition of our obligation to ecological practice.

To reclaim is to recall or bring back. I speak of "reclaiming ...

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