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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA ORTHODOXA - Issue no. 2 / 2008  
         
  Article:   SIMULTANEOUS SUCCESSIONS: BETWEEN POSTCOMMUNISM AND POSTMODERNITY. A SOCIAL-THEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS.

Authors:  RADU PREDA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Simultaneous Successions: between Postcommunism and Postmodernity. A Social-Theological Analysis. The present text starts from the ascertained fact that the post-totalitarian societies, as the Romanian one of today, are confronted with two ideological-political phenomena, at the same time successive and simultaneous: postcommunism and postmodernity. The correct evaluation of what is usually called the transition of the East-European countries depends on the understanding of this paradox. The emphasis of this analysis, made from a social-theological perspective, is laid rather on the question of postmodernity, of its usual definitions. Then we pay attention to what we have called the three “novelties” of postmodernity: 1) the ethic-technical choice (as illustrated in bioethics, ecology and virtual space), 2) the new-migrations and the dynamic character of the identity’s borders (globalization and the multi-cultural society), and 3) the amnesic subject and the social structures of oblivion (the lack of the historical consensus and the lack of education).

Keywords: postcommunism, postmodernity, transition, social theology, Orthodox Church

 
         
     
         
         
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