RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND GLOBALIZATION: BEYOND COMPARATIVE APPROACHES.

RELIGION & science; PHILOSOPHY of nature; GLOBALIZATION; MATERIALISM; DOCTRINAL theology

Using case studies from the Indonesian context, this article argues that the current truth regimes we now live by are always and already 'hybrid' and that we need new methods for understanding meaning-making practices in an era of globalization and climate change than comparative approaches allow. Following the works of such thinkers as physicist Karen Barad, political philosopher William Connolly, and eco-critic Timothy Morton, this article develops the idea that an event-oriented or object-oriented approach better captures our hybrid meaning-making practices. Not only that, but it also provides a lens through which to understand traditions as polydox (rather than orthodox) and the rise of 'modern' science as itself a planetary (rather than a Western) phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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