"Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world"--.

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction: Emerging from Multiple Rifts
• 2 Post-Secularity and (Global) Politics: A Need for Redefinition
  • Secularity versus Faith
  • Religion and Ordinary Language
  • Post-Secularity and Politics
• 3 Post-Secular Faith: Toward a Religion of Service
  • Varieties of Religious Experience
  • Toward a Religion of Service
  • Multiple Faiths in a Shared World
• 4 Beyond Secular Modernity: Reflections on Taylor and Panikkar
  • A Secular Age
  • The Rhythm of Being
  • Concluding Comments
• 5 “Man against the State”: Self-Interest and Civil Resistance
  • Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism
  • Civil Disobedience and Dissent
  • Dissent in Community
• 6 Neo-Liberalism and Its Critics: Voices from East and West
  • Minimal or Neo-Liberal Democracy
  • Beyond Minimalism: Voices from South Asia
  • Beyond Minimalism: Voices from East Asia
  • Concluding Remarks
• 7 Individualized Life: The Plight of Narcissism
  • Individualized Society
  • Regimes of Narcissism, Regimes of Despair
  • Pandemic, World Alienation, and Vita Activa
• 8 Holism and Particularism: Panikkar on Human Rights
  • Is “Human Rights” a Western Concept?
  • Rights and Right(ness)
• 9 Falling Upward Communally: A Tribute to Richard Rohr
  • The Universal Christ
  • The Divine Dance
  • Falling Upward
• Concluding Remarks
• Notes
• Index