The Making of Meaning is a Serious Business
Is Religious fundamentalism a Product of the Market Place?“The making of meaning is a serious business” In times of great population shifts, occupational and geographical mobility and rapid cultural changes; religion reinvents itself in response to its social circumstances. Since the 1960’s in particular, the images and symbols of religion have undergone a transformation. Popular discourses about Religion and Spirituality, about the Self and Experience, about Faith and God; all indicate to crucially important shifts in the connotations of everyday spiritual life. Crucial because increasingly in our society of rampant consumerism, such deviating shifts are commanding our attention and influencing our interpretations of day - to - day experiences. While the 1960’s offered us an anatomy of alternative spirituality, today, we are bombarded by a market place of spiritual gimmicks and an imposition of sacrament over shadowing the authenticity of religions doctrines. If we accept that religious identities are malleable and multifaceted, the greater evidence of self - reflexivity in modern life further accentuates religious discontinuities, including among evangelical fundamentalists, now presume an aware
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Approximate Word count = 1929
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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