The Premodern and the Postmodern: Some Parallels, with Special Reference to Hinduism

✍ Scribed by David Smith

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 399 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0048-721X
• DOI: 10.1006/reli.1993.1014

✦ Synopsis

In virtually all smaller pre-modern cultures there was only one main religious order. . . In larger traditional societies, where religious orders sometimes were more diversified, there was little pluralism in the modern sense: orthodoxy confronted various heresies. ({ }^{11})