Metamodernity
The following is a Pub Theology primer and conversation-starter, taken from the book Based on a True Story , by Paul Anleitner. METAMODERNITY Modernity, Postmodernity, and What Comes Next Prologue What makes up “you”? Is it your body, your cells? Or is it your story? The stories that make us matter. In the last few decades, religious affiliation has cratered, while deaths of despair have dramatically increased. By the 2010s we spoke of a “crisis of meaning.” More recently, however, we hear rumblings of reënchantment. Time shall tell. Break Stuff: A Culture in Collapse 1990s saw Seinfeld, The Death of Superman, Fight Club, The Matrix , Rage Against the Machine at Woodstock ’99, all telling the same story: The world that you’re born into is a sham. For those born after 1990, it’s hard to imagine unironic patriotism. Postmodernism had gone mainstream, shifted the zeitgeist. “In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not...
