Metamodern Meaning 54. Traditional Faith and Metamodernism (w/ Jared Morningstar)
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May 9, 2024 Jared Morningstar discusses the relationship between metamodernism and traditional faith, advocating for experimentation and epistemic humility. They explore the role of 'causal opacity' in religious functionality and the engagement of traditional faiths with hyper-complex phenomena. The conversation touches on religious pluralism, tradition-specific language, and integrating general and particular perspectives in metamodern spirituality.
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Value And Risk In Returning To Tradition
- Traditional religions hold deep practical wisdom, community forms, and meaning-making capacities worth reclaiming.
- Jared warns we must avoid reactionary tribalism that captures religions for narrow culture-war ends.
Doing Tradition Before It Was Trendy
- Jared recounts participating in traditional religion before it became trendy, emphasizing long-term engagement.
- He uses this history to argue for earnest, not opportunistic, reengagement with tradition.
Causal Opacity Powers Religious Practice
- Functionalist accounts explain religious practices by social utility but can miss internal meanings.
- Making causal mechanisms explicit can erode the motivating lived participation that produced the function.