Modern replacements for otherworldly religion remain hostile to nature

Evidence

No single position on human significance has appeared to replace that of otherworldly religion; rather there are a number of sons contending for the mantle of the Father, the power to confer meaning and identity. The sites of contest include science, progress, technological conquest, the economy. These offer different solutions to the problem of identity and continuity, but they are usually ones as hostile to the natural world as the old identity based in denial of human connection to nature. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 388

Categorization

• XREF: Science, progress, economy as ‘sons contending for the mantle of the Father’ directly bridges to Merchant’s account of Enlightenment scientific mastery and Plumwood’s ch1 economic-man thread. — connects to: Modernity preserved the opposition to nature while discarding the afterlife — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 387; Modern environmental awe of nature is secularized religious worship. — William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or,…, 41; Directing religious expectations toward earthly life can make culture cease to oppress — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 151 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern religiosity persists after its supernatural objects are excised #expands (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 864
• Directing religious expectations toward earthly life can make culture cease to oppress #contradicts (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 151
• Otherworldly salvation defines the human self as oppositional to nature #corroborates (0.70) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 384