postreligious

adj

postreligious

adj

Etymology From post- + religious.

1

After the decline of religion.

  • For the postreligious culture of modern humanity, art is the last religion.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103:
  • His world is severely postreligious, a circumstance that made reflective believers intensely interested in his work, too.2007 August 4, Peter Steinfels, “Bergman, Antonioni and the Religiously Inclined”, in New York Times:

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