A late 20th-century philosophical approach or style of cultural analysis that seeks to reveal the cultural or social construction of concepts conventionally assumed to be natural or universal. (from E.R. DuBose, The Illusion of Trust: Toward a Medical Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age, Kluwer, 1995)
    

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A magic still dwells : comparative religion in the postmodern age / edited by Kimberley C. Patton and Benjamin C. Ray.

Bad girls and sick boys : fantasies in contemporary art and culture / Linda S. Kauffman.

Knowing other-wise : philosophy at the threshold of spirituality / edited by James H. Olthuis.

The experience of God : a postmodern response / edited by Kevin Hart and Barbara Wall.

Postmodernism for historians / Callum G. Brown.

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A magic still dwells : comparative religion in the postmodern age / edited by Kimberley C. Patton and Benjamin C. Ray.

Bad girls and sick boys : fantasies in contemporary art and culture / Linda S. Kauffman.

Knowing other-wise : philosophy at the threshold of spirituality / edited by James H. Olthuis.

The experience of God : a postmodern response / edited by Kevin Hart and Barbara Wall.

Postmodernism for historians / Callum G. Brown.