In the postmodern age‚ when no more ‘metanarratives’ are to be believed‚ the glorious heritage of the golden past appears incredulous to the current generation. The current trend of poetry‚ which boasts itself of sceptically questioning the roots and traditions‚ where the motif of ‘emancipation’ is not needed‚ as the worth of human life itself is enquired‚ though is different from our ancient noble trend of poetry‚ yet still it manages to help man by making him search for his new identity; an identity
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Matthew Arnold: Poems Summary and Analysis of "The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853) Summary The speaker of "The Scholar-Gipsy" describes a beautiful rural setting in the pastures‚ with the town of Oxford lying in the distance. He watches the shepherd and reapers working amongst the field‚ and then tells the shepherd that he will remain out there until sundown‚ enjoying the scenery and studying the towers of Oxford. All the while‚ he will keep his book beside him. His book tells the famous story by Joseph Glanvill
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Society has now entered a postmodern age and we need to understand it. Assess this view. (33marks) Postmodern society is rich in choice‚ freedom and diversity‚ this has caused society to fragment and this has led to secularisation. Postmodernity has caused things such as globalisation. Globalisation refers to the growing interconnectedness of societies. As we are now living in a postmodern society many sociologists believe that we need new theories as traditional theories such as Functionalism
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Islam: Islam‚ Globalization and Postmodernity‚ ed. By Akbar S. Ahmed and Hastings Donnan. (London: Routledge‚ 1994) [ 2 ]. Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West‚ ed. By Karin Van Nieuwkerk. (United States of America: University of Texas Press‚ 2006) p. 131 [ 3 ] [ 4 ]. Islam: Islam‚ Globalization and Postmodernity‚ ed. By Akbar S. Ahmed and Hastings Donnan. (London: Routledge‚ 1994) p.141-150 [ 5 ] [ 6 ]. Islam: Islam‚ Globalization and Postmodernity‚ ed. By Akbar S. Ahmed and Hastings
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Christian ‘gentleness and reverence’ (1 Peter 3:15) is to have the Gospel heard‚ not merely for the Christian to be liked. If the Gospel is particular‚ it cannot in a postmodern culture be popular. As early as 1973‚ Forell says of pluralism in postmodernity that it is the ideologically most threatening aspect of the modern world ...because it undermines the notion of “one truth” and thus jeopardises the claims of atheists and theists‚ nationalists and internationalists‚ totalitarians and democrats
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Exploring Social Media Marketing Towards a Richer Understanding of Social Media in Postmodernity Monika Garnyte and Ana de Ávila Pérez Thesis supervisor: Lars Haahr MA in Corporate Communication 1st December 2009 Aarhus School of Business‚ University of Aarhus Exploring Social Media Marketing: Towards a Richer Understanding of Social Media in Postmodernity Monika Garnyte and Ana de Ávila Pérez Acknowledgements The authors of this
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INTRODUCTION 1. POSTMODERNISM: AN ANALYSIS 1.1 What is Postmodernism? 1.1.1 Origin of Postmodernism 1.1.2 Modernism Vs Postmodernism 1.1.2.1 Postmodernity Begins where Modernity Ends 1.1.2.2 Postmodernism is a Continuation of Modernism 1.1.3 Differentiating Postmodernism and Postmodernity 1.2 The Historical Development of Postmodernism 1.2.1 Martin Heidegger 1.2.2 Friedrich Nietzsche 1.3 Characteristics of Postmodernism 1.3.1 Shift of Emphasis 1.3
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very limited number of terms have had a massive impact on almost all social disciplines as the term ‘‘postmodernity’’ has had. It would not be surprising that such a significant term has been the focus of a number of researches within a variety of disciplines. According to Firat‚ Sherry and Venkatesh (1994) ‘‘Debates and discussions regarding postmodernism‚ postmodern culture‚ and postmodernity have created some of the most prolific‚ heated and exciting publications and productions in‚ especially
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The opposition is apparent between the eras of modernity and postmodernity. As described by Grenz‚ modernity focuses on the individual‚ using reasoning as a source of the truth. This belief causes truth to be relative. Postmodernity’s focal point is the group‚ rather than the individual. Truth‚ in the postmodern view‚ is created by intuition and feeling‚ causing it to be constructed. Grenz also discusses both the problems postmodernity pose on Christianity and the similarities between postmodernism
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Assess the sociological explanations for the increasing number of religions and spiritual organisations and movements in society today There are many different definitions and types of religious organisations including church‚ sects‚ denominations‚ cults and New Religious Movements. Since the 1960s the number of religious and spiritual organisations and movements in society have increased. Troeltsch defines church and sects as distinctly different organisations. He says churches are large universalistic
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