Modernity defines itself partly through its relation to religion

Evidence

Meanwhile, as religion has always been one of the principles by which modernity has tried to recognize itself and to specify its own difference, it may not be inappropriate to inquire about its status under the new postmodern dispensation, in which — just as its well-known lack of historicity has apparently generated any number of “returns to history” -religious revivals also seem endemic, without one’s often caring to take them at face value. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 828

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies how modernism and postmodernism each define themselves against or through religion.
• XREF: Connects to Weber’s Protestant ethic thesis and his sociology of religion. — connects to: Speed is modernity’s secular stand-in for eternal life — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 490; Early modern Europe reframed religion as a human-constructed system.; Modernity’s core political concepts are secularized Christian concepts — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 184 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Speed is modernity’s secular stand-in for eternal life — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 490; Early modern Europe reframed religion as a human-constructed system.; Modernity’s core political concepts are secularized Christian concepts — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 184 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Modernity’s core political concepts are secularized Christian concepts #expands (0.95) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 184