1. Updating Religion (w/ Lene Rachel Andersen)

Brendan Graham Dempsey talks to Lene Rachel Andersen, author of Metamodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World, about navigating different cultural codes, updating traditions, and sense-making in today's world. 0:00 Introduction 3:20 Metamodern-ism vs. Metamodern-ity 5:34 Seeing All Four Previous Cultural Codes 11:15 Updating through Addition 13:01 Metamodern Oscillation between Postmodern and Pre-postmodern (Indigenous, Classical, Modern) 18:08 Cultural Code-Switching 27:02 Code Antagonism and Limits 23:29 Code Pluralism and Sense-Making 34:44 A Corner of the Iron Age in 2021 39:03 Premodern Beliefs in a Metamodern World? 47:07 Invention and Religion/Inventing Religion 57:53 Transcendence in the Cultural Codes 1:04:11 Making Meaning, Sense, and Identity after Postmodernism More on Lene's work at: www.NordicBildung.org www.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com