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- adjective After the decline of
religion .
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Examples
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So many of the people in the Church of Stop Shopping you'd call postreligious — a lot of PKs (preachers 'kids); folks from different fundamentalist backgrounds; we have Muslims and Hindus, Catholics and Protestants and Jews.
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In a postreligious culture that lacks appropriate rituals of grieving and mourning--and the solace that is provided by such rites--there was something perfectly appropriate about this: a memorial predicated on transience, a work of art that was absolutely inseparable from the temporary city and the community it was designed to help and to please.
Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011
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In a postreligious culture that lacks appropriate rituals of grieving and mourning--and the solace that is provided by such rites--there was something perfectly appropriate about this: a memorial predicated on transience, a work of art that was absolutely inseparable from the temporary city and the community it was designed to help and to please.
Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011
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In a postreligious culture that lacks appropriate rituals of grieving and mourning--and the solace that is provided by such rites--there was something perfectly appropriate about this: a memorial predicated on transience, a work of art that was absolutely inseparable from the temporary city and the community it was designed to help and to please.
Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011
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In a postreligious culture that lacks appropriate rituals of grieving and mourning--and the solace that is provided by such rites--there was something perfectly appropriate about this: a memorial predicated on transience, a work of art that was absolutely inseparable from the temporary city and the community it was designed to help and to please.
Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011
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Living in societies that are largely postreligious, many Westerners find it hard to understand how someone might really believe in a war sanctioned by God, yet four centuries ago most European wars were fought over issues of religion.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Living in societies that are largely postreligious, many Westerners find it hard to understand how someone might really believe in a war sanctioned by God, yet four centuries ago most European wars were fought over issues of religion.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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In a postreligious culture that lacks appropriate rituals of grieving and mourning--and the solace that is provided by such rites--there was something perfectly appropriate about this: a memorial predicated on transience, a work of art that was absolutely inseparable from the temporary city and the community it was designed to help and to please.
Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011
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Living in societies that are largely postreligious, many Westerners find it hard to understand how someone might really believe in a war sanctioned by God, yet four centuries ago most European wars were fought over issues of religion.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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In a postreligious culture that lacks appropriate rituals of grieving and mourning--and the solace that is provided by such rites--there was something perfectly appropriate about this: a memorial predicated on transience, a work of art that was absolutely inseparable from the temporary city and the community it was designed to help and to please.
Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011
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