God and religion in post-modern philosophers

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José J. Queiroz

Abstract

This paper is an essay on the positions of some post-modern philosophers on religion, with the debate about post-modernity as a background. Its preliminary objective is to situate post-modernity taking a position between plain acceptance and categorical refusal in contemporary society. In this polemical field, the paper focuses on three important post-modern philosophers by pointing their contributions for a new thinking about religion today. The procedure consists in the reading of the authors´ texts looking for an interpretation of their discourses on God, religion and the sacred. The conclusion is that post-modernity is not as new era overcoming modernity, but that it is comprised of new themes  that are on the fringes  or even  in opposite directions of modernity´s parameters . One can find these themes in many fields of human knowledge including theology and science of religion. On Derrida´s position, who is the most focused philosopher, the text is still embryonic as it comes from ongoing research.  

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QUEIROZ, José J. God and religion in post-modern philosophers. HORIZONTE - Journal of Studies in Theology and Religious Sciences, Belo Horizonte, v. 14, n. 44, p. 1619–1644, 2016. DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2016v14n44p1619. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2016v14n44p1619. Acesso em: 12 aug. 2025.
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José J. Queiroz, PUC - SP

Doutor em Direito pela Universidade Pontificia Santo Tomás de Aquino de Roma (1960)m mestre (Lectoratus) em Filosofia e Teologia pela Faculdade Santo Tomás de Aquino de Boloha - Itália (1957) Professor titular da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo