"Post" Phenomenal Arcades

Gender Trouble

Fr Justine Kaiprampadan Gender binary is a system of classification of sex, which is based on the individual’s reproductive framework and it signifies the socially constructed notions and expected behaviour that a culture has for a particular sex. It establishes two distinguishable and often opposite genders, male and female. This over powers all areas of […]

Text as metaphor and story

Vincent Kundukulam The postmodern theorists are highly influenced by Nietzsche’s view of text as a rhetorical play. It means that the text, though it intends to communicate truth, does not convey the reality objectively. The language of the text may seem to be real due to its literal appearance but often it carries only the […]

Art of liberating the ‘works’

It was Jean François Lyotard, the founder of postmodern philosophy, who announced the death of master narratives. The rationale of his argument was that the big faith-traditions and ideologies are not able to hold people together at present like in the modern age. I think that this claim of the postmodern thinker needs to be […]

A Time to Be Vectors of Truth

Day by day, the problems multiply in and for the Church. She meets with challenges from within and outside. As regards the criticisms leveled against her from outside, she is partly responsible because the faults identified in her personnel have proved to be real at least in certain cases. At the same time, the news […]

Post Modernity Affects Theologizing in India

Postmodernity influences all disciplines of knowledge, and theology is not an exception. Some may think that India has not sufficiently become even modern and how can one speak of the influence of postmodern culture on Indian theology. Though at the first glance this remark may seem to be valid, the reality on the ground is […]

Football, the religion

We have come to the end of FIFA football world cup 2018. The way the world has been celebrating the event, called to my mind the ample features of postmodern religion. Postmodern man, in difference to modern man, is a believer. The events that happened in the first half of the 20th century, especially those […]

Major assets of Indian theology

If we make an assessment of the theological reflections in India in the post Independent era, we will find three important trends: contemplative, theological and liberative. A great symbol of Indian contemplative current was the emergence of Christian Ashrams in the country along the model of Hindu and Buddhist Ashrams. The inspiration given by the […]

Conversation, Way to Truth

We are living in a world of pluralism and the growing multiculturalism has given way to fragmented identities in all walks of life. There is an urgent need of an instance that can respond to the aspirations of different groups of sexual, ethnic, religious and cultural diversities and can help people to arrive at a […]

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Pope: Red Cross’ humanitarian work shows that fraternity is possible

New Vatican document lists ‘grave violations’ of human dignity