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<div>'''Metamodernism''' refers to a broad range of developments in culture and society that appear after and gesture beyond postmodernism. One definition characterizes metamodernism as an oscillation between aspects of both modernism and postmodernism; others see it as an integration of these as well as premodern (indigenous and traditional) cultural codes.<br />
<br />
Since its introduction, metamodernism has increasingly become the predominant term to describe post-postmodernism.<br />
<br />
== Cultural Studies ==<br />
<br />
=== Vermeulen and van den Akker ===<br />
In 1995, Canadian literary theorist Linda Hutcheon stated that a new label for what was coming after postmodernism was necessary. In 2010, cultural theorists Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker proposed metamodernism as an intervention in this post-postmodernism debate. In their essay ''Notes on Metamodernism'', they asserted that the 2000s were characterized by the return of typically modern positions that nevertheless did not forfeit the postmodern mindsets of the 1980s and 1990s. According to them, the metamodern sensibility "can be conceived of as a kind of informed naivety, a pragmatic idealism", characteristic of cultural responses to recent global events such as climate change, the financial crisis, political instability, and the digital revolution. They asserted that “the postmodern culture of relativism, irony, and pastiche" is over, having been replaced by a post-ideological condition that stresses engagement, affect, and storytelling through "ironic sincerity."<br />
<br />
The prefix "meta-" referred not so much to a reflective stance or repeated rumination, but to Plato's metaxy, which denotes a movement ''between'' (meta) opposite poles as well as ''beyond'' (meta) them. Vermeulen and van den Akker described metamodernism as a "structure of feeling" that oscillates between modernism and postmodernism like "a pendulum swinging between...innumerable poles". According to Kim Levin, writing in ''ARTnews'', this oscillation "must embrace doubt, as well as hope and melancholy, sincerity and irony, affect and apathy, the personal and the political, and technology and techne." For the metamodern generation, according to Vermeulen, "grand narratives are as necessary as they are problematic, hope is not simply something to distrust, love not necessarily something to be ridiculed."<br />
<br />
In 2017, Vermeulen and van den Akker, with Allison Gibbons, published ''Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect and Depth After Postmodernism'', an edited collection of essays exploring the notion of metamodernism across a variety of fields in the arts and culture. <br />
<br />
== Developmental Metamodernism ==<br />
<br />
=== Hanzi Freinacht and Nordic Metamodernism ===<br />
In 2017, sociologist Daniel Görtz and theory artist Emil Ejner Friis, writing under the pen name Hanzi Freinacht, published the first volume in their 'Metamodern Guide to Politics' Series, ''The Listening Society.'' Employing metamodernism as their "philosophical engine," they considerably expanded the scope and vision of the term, construing metamodernism as an active intellectual, social, and political movement emerging to meet the crises arising from globalization.<br />
<br />
"Freinacht" articulates a progressive political program heavily informed by developmental psychology, particularly the Model of Hierarchical Complexity (MHC), a neo-Piagetian framework developed by Michael Commons. In this context, metamodernism is best understood not merely as a cultural ''phase'', but as a developmental ''stage'', which is manifested at both the individual and the collective levels. The distinct stages of the MHC thus correspond to cultural expressions of these stages and their associated worldviews, or "effective value memes."<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+Stages and their Value Memes<br />
!MHC Stage<br />
!Cultural Code<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 7: ''Pre-operational stage''<br />
|Archaic<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 8: ''Primary Stage''<br />
|Animistic<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 9: ''Concrete Stage''<br />
|Faustian<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 10: ''Abstract Stage''<br />
|Post-Faustian<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 11: ''Formal Stage''<br />
|Modern<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 12: ''Systematic Stage''<br />
|Postmodern<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 13: ''Metasystematic Stage''<br />
|Metamodern<br />
|}<br />
In September 2018, Görtz conducted a TEDx talk in Berlin outlining the development of "value memes" (influenced by the work of Clare W. Graves and Don Beck) claiming that the metamodern value meme constitutes the highest form yet.<br />
<br />
In 2019, the second volume of the Series, ''Nordic Ideology'', was published, providing Freinacht's detailed vision for a political metamodernism.<br />
<br />
Brent Cooper of ''The Abs-Tract Organization'', an Internet-based think-tank, focuses on sociological meta-theory, specifically abstraction as a cognitive process and social process of complexification, which he relates to an emerging metamodernism. Cooper wrote a longform review and analysis of Vermeulen, van den Akker, and Gibbons' 2017 book ''Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism'', jokingly dubbing their body of thought "The Dutch School" of metamodernism, as his way of differentiating cultural, literary, and other academic theories of metamodernism from those that utilize the concept as a social/political activist intervention. Cooper's article ''The Abstraction of Benjamin Bratton'' attempts to identify Bratton as an implicit metamodern thinker, whose work highlights the intersection of abstract processes and the "accidental" creation of a global governance matrix which he calls "The Stack".<br />
<br />
Jim Rutt brought metamodernism to the notice of the so-called "GameB" community through various interviews with Freinacht (Görtz), Stein, Cooper, and others on ''The Jim Rutt Show''. On November 16, 2018, the topic of political metamodernism was broached on ''Revolutionary Left Radio'' hosted by Breht Ó Séaghdha, interviewing Austin Hayden Smidt, where they discuss the paradigmatic backdrops of modernity and postmodernity, and the need for leftist reform and unification which they suggest political metamodernism could guide. Douglas Lain of ''Zero Books'' has also explored the topic of political metamodernism on his podcast with Luke Turner.<br />
<br />
In 2019, Lene Rachel Anderson published the book ''Metamodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World,'' in which she claims: "Metamodernity provides us with a framework for understanding ourselves and our societies in a much more complex way. It contains both indigenous, premodern, modern, and postmodern cultural elements and thus provides social norms and a moral fabric for intimacy, spirituality, religion, science, and self-exploration, all at the same time."<br />
<br />
2019 also saw the publication of ''The World We Create: From God to Market'' by Tomas Björkman, a work exploring the complex origins of our precarious situation today, along with a set of proposed solutions utilizing a metamodern framework.<br />
<br />
In 2021, Perspectiva Press published ''Metamodernity: Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds'', an anthology of essays on metamodernism and society by Jonathan Rowson and others.<br />
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<div>'''Metamodernism''' refers to a broad range of developments in culture and society that appear after and gesture beyond postmodernism. One definition characterizes metamodernism as an oscillation between aspects of both modernism and postmodernism; others see it as an integration of these as well as premodern (indigenous and traditional) cultural codes.<br />
<br />
Since its introduction, metamodernism has increasingly become the predominant term to describe post-postmodernism.<br />
<br />
== Cultural Studies ==<br />
<br />
=== Vermeulen and van den Akker ===<br />
In 1995, Canadian literary theorist Linda Hutcheon stated that a new label for what was coming after postmodernism was necessary. In 2010, cultural theorists Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker proposed metamodernism as an intervention in this post-postmodernism debate. In their essay ''Notes on Metamodernism'', they asserted that the 2000s were characterized by the return of typically modern positions that nevertheless did not forfeit the postmodern mindsets of the 1980s and 1990s. According to them, the metamodern sensibility "can be conceived of as a kind of informed naivety, a pragmatic idealism", characteristic of cultural responses to recent global events such as climate change, the financial crisis, political instability, and the digital revolution. They asserted that “the postmodern culture of relativism, irony, and pastiche" is over, having been replaced by a post-ideological condition that stresses engagement, affect, and storytelling through "ironic sincerity."<br />
<br />
The prefix "meta-" referred not so much to a reflective stance or repeated rumination, but to Plato's metaxy, which denotes a movement ''between'' (meta) opposite poles as well as ''beyond'' (meta) them. Vermeulen and van den Akker described metamodernism as a "structure of feeling" that oscillates between modernism and postmodernism like "a pendulum swinging between...innumerable poles". According to Kim Levin, writing in ''ARTnews'', this oscillation "must embrace doubt, as well as hope and melancholy, sincerity and irony, affect and apathy, the personal and the political, and technology and techne." For the metamodern generation, according to Vermeulen, "grand narratives are as necessary as they are problematic, hope is not simply something to distrust, love not necessarily something to be ridiculed."<br />
<br />
In 2017, Vermeulen and van den Akker, with Allison Gibbons, published ''Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect and Depth After Postmodernism'', an edited collection of essays exploring the notion of metamodernism across a variety of fields in the arts and culture. <br />
<br />
== Developmental Metamodernism ==<br />
<br />
=== Hanzi Freinacht and Nordic Metamodernism ===<br />
In 2017, sociologist Daniel Görtz and theory artist Emil Ejner Friis, writing under the pen name Hanzi Freinacht, published the first volume in their 'Metamodern Guide to Politics' Series, ''The Listening Society.'' Employing metamodernism as their "philosophical engine," they considerably expanded the scope and vision of the term, construing metamodernism as an active intellectual, social, and political movement emerging to meet the crises arising from globalization.<br />
<br />
"Freinacht" articulates a progressive political program heavily informed by developmental psychology, particularly the Model of Hierarchical Complexity (MHC), a neo-Piagetian framework developed by Michael Commons. In this context, metamodernism is best understood not merely as a cultural ''phase'', but as a developmental ''stage'', which is manifested at both the individual and the collective levels. The distinct stages of the MHC thus correspond to cultural expressions of these stages and their associated worldviews, or "effective value memes."<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+Stages and their Value Memes<br />
!MHC Stage<br />
!Cultural Code<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 7: ''Pre-operational stage''<br />
|Archaic<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 8: ''Primary Stage''<br />
|Animistic<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 9: ''Concrete Stage''<br />
|Faustian<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 10: ''Abstract Stage''<br />
|Post-Faustian<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 11: ''Formal Stage''<br />
|Modern<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 12: ''Systematic Stage''<br />
|Postmodern<br />
|-<br />
|Stage 13: ''Metasystematic Stage''<br />
|Metamodern<br />
|}<br />
In September 2018, Görtz conducted a TEDx talk in Berlin outlining the development of "value memes" (influenced by the work of Clare W. Graves and Don Beck) claiming that the metamodern value meme constitutes the highest form yet.<br />
<br />
In 2019, the second volume of the Series, ''Nordic Ideology'', was published, providing Freinacht's detailed vision for a political metamodernism.<br />
<br />
Brent Cooper of ''The Abs-Tract Organization'', an Internet-based think-tank, focuses on sociological meta-theory, specifically abstraction as a cognitive process and social process of complexification, which he relates to an emerging metamodernism. Cooper wrote a longform review and analysis of Vermeulen, van den Akker, and Gibbons' 2017 book ''Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism'', jokingly dubbing their body of thought "The Dutch School" of metamodernism, as his way of differentiating cultural, literary, and other academic theories of metamodernism from those that utilize the concept as a social/political activist intervention. Cooper's article ''The Abstraction of Benjamin Bratton'' attempts to identify Bratton as an implicit metamodern thinker, whose work highlights the intersection of abstract processes and the "accidental" creation of a global governance matrix which he calls "The Stack".<br />
<br />
Jim Rutt brought metamodernism to the notice of the so-called "GameB" community through various interviews with Freinacht (Görtz), Stein, Cooper, and others on ''The Jim Rutt Show''. On November 16, 2018, the topic of political metamodernism was broached on ''Revolutionary Left Radio'' hosted by Breht Ó Séaghdha, interviewing Austin Hayden Smidt, where they discuss the paradigmatic backdrops of modernity and postmodernity, and the need for leftist reform and unification which they suggest political metamodernism could guide. Douglas Lain of ''Zero Books'' has also explored the topic of political metamodernism on his podcast with Luke Turner.<br />
<br />
In 2019, Lene Rachel Anderson published the book ''Metamodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World,'' in which she claims: "Metamodernity provides us with a framework for understanding ourselves and our societies in a much more complex way. It contains both indigenous, premodern, modern, and postmodern cultural elements and thus provides social norms and a moral fabric for intimacy, spirituality, religion, science, and self-exploration, all at the same time."<br />
<br />
2019 also saw the publication of ''The World We Create: From God to Market'' by Tomas Björkman, a work exploring the complex origins of our precarious situation today, along with a set of proposed solutions utilizing a metamodern framework.<br />
<br />
In 2021, Perspectiva Press published ''Metamodernity: Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds'', an anthology of essays on metamodernism and society by Jonathan Rowson and others.</div>Snuffleumpagushttps://www.gameb.wiki/index.php?title=Brendan_Graham_Dempsey&diff=1074Brendan Graham Dempsey2021-09-03T18:15:29Z<p>Snuffleumpagus: Added category</p>
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<div>'''Brendan Graham Dempsey''' (born May 16, 1989) is an American author, poet, and scholar of religion who writes on [[wikipedia:Metamodernism|metamodern]] spirituality. His work focuses on the perceived "meaning crisis" in contemporary society and the efforts to reconstruct religion after [[wikipedia:Postmodernism|postmodernism]].<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
Dempsey graduated ''summa cum laude'' from the [[wikipedia:University_of_Vermont|University of Vermont]] in 2011, where he studied Classical Civilizations and Religious Studies. Discovering the work of Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker on [[wikipedia:Metamodernism|metamodernism]] in 2014, he presented his paper "The Death and Resurrection of God in Metamodern Religion" at the ''Oscillate!: Metamodernism in the Humanities'' conference at the [[wikipedia:University_of_Strathclyde|University of Strathclyde]] (later revised and published as "[R]econstruction: Metamodern 'Transcendence' and the Return of Myth' in the webzine ''Notes on Metamodernism'').<ref>Dempsey, Brendan. [Re]construction: Metamodern 'Transcendence' and the Return of Myth. ''Notes on Metamodernism.'' https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/10/21/reconstruction-metamodern-transcendence-and-the-return-of-myth/</ref><br />
<br />
In 2017, he earned his Master's in Religion (MAR) from [[wikipedia:Yale_University|Yale University]], where he studied Religion and the Arts (literature concentration) at [[wikipedia:Yale_Divinity_School|Yale Divinity School]]'s elite inter-disciplinary arts program, the [[wikipedia:Yale_Institute_of_Sacred_Music|Yale Institute of Sacred Music]] (ISM). <br />
<br />
== Metamodern Spirituality Series ==<br />
In April of 2021, Dempsey published the first five volumes of the ''Metamodern Spirituality Series'', a book series devoted to exploring issues of meaning-making and spirituality after postmodernism.<ref>https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/writing</ref> The various works are all written under various pseudonyms, with Dempsey himself appearing as the "General Editor" of the series, and cover a range of genres, from a triptych of essays, to redacted scripture, to epic poetry.<br />
<br />
Dempsey also hosts the ''Metamodern Spirituality'' podcast, in which he interviews prominent voices on metamodernism and contemporary spirituality.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/c/brendangrahamdempsey</ref><br />
<br />
== Reception ==<br />
Dempsey's work on metamodernism and religion has been drawn upon by many of the leading scholars currently writing on the topic.<ref>Clasquin-Johnson, L. Towards a metamodern academic study of religion and a more religiously informed metamodernism. ''Harvard Theological Studies'' 73(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v73i3.4491.</ref><ref>Ceriello, L. Metamodern Mysticisms. Narrative Encounters with Contemporary Western Secular Spiritualities. Dissertation, Rice University, 2018. https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/103873/CERIELLO-DOCUMENT-2018.pdf</ref><ref>Bargár, P. The Modern, the Postmodern, and. . . the Metamodern? Reflections on a Transforming Sensibility from the Perspective of Theological Anthropology. ''Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies'' 38(1):3-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265378820976944</ref><ref>Shcherov, V. I. Philosophical aspects of metamodernism. ''Journal of Gender and Interdisciplinarity'' 2(1). <nowiki>https://www.periodicojs.com.br/index.php/gei/article/view/159</nowiki></ref><ref>Radchenko S. Bleeding Edge of Postmodernism: Metamodern Writing in the Novel by Thomas Pynchon. ''Interlitteraria'' 24(2):495-508.</ref> His videos on metamodernism are also popular on YouTube.<br />
<br />
== Bibliography ==<br />
<br />
=== Metamodern Spirituality Series ===<br />
<br />
* Vol. 1. ''GOD.'' [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9798728917342|ISBN 979-8728917342]]<br />
* Vol. 2. ''Metamodernism and the Return of Transcendence''. [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9798728412397|ISBN 979-8728412397]]<br />
* Vol. 3. ''The Oil and the Lamp''. [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9781667194448|ISBN 978-1667194448]]<br />
* Vol. 4. ''Building the Cathedral: Answering the Meaning Crisis through Personal Myth''. [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9798728831211|ISBN 979-8728831211]]<br />
* Vol. 5. ''GOSPEL''. [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9798530812149|ISBN 979-8530812149]]<br />
<br />
=== Articles ===<br />
<br />
* "[R]econstruction: Metamodern 'Transcendence' and the Return of Myth' in the webzine ''Notes on Metamodernism''"<br />
<br />
== External Links ==<br />
* [https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/ BrendanGrahamDempsey.com] - author's official website<br />
* [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091SJWQW1?binding=paperback&qid=1630607723 Metamodern Spirituality Series] - Amazon book series link<br />
== References ==<br />
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[[Category:People]]<br />
[[Category:Page Status - Overview]]</div>Snuffleumpagushttps://www.gameb.wiki/index.php?title=Brendan_Graham_Dempsey&diff=1073Brendan Graham Dempsey2021-09-03T18:11:49Z<p>Snuffleumpagus: Cleaned page up. Fixed broken references.</p>
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<div>'''Brendan Graham Dempsey''' (born May 16, 1989) is an American author, poet, and scholar of religion who writes on [[wikipedia:Metamodernism|metamodern]] spirituality. His work focuses on the perceived "meaning crisis" in contemporary society and the efforts to reconstruct religion after [[wikipedia:Postmodernism|postmodernism]].<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
Dempsey graduated ''summa cum laude'' from the [[wikipedia:University_of_Vermont|University of Vermont]] in 2011, where he studied Classical Civilizations and Religious Studies. Discovering the work of Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker on [[wikipedia:Metamodernism|metamodernism]] in 2014, he presented his paper "The Death and Resurrection of God in Metamodern Religion" at the ''Oscillate!: Metamodernism in the Humanities'' conference at the [[wikipedia:University_of_Strathclyde|University of Strathclyde]] (later revised and published as "[R]econstruction: Metamodern 'Transcendence' and the Return of Myth' in the webzine ''Notes on Metamodernism'').<ref>Dempsey, Brendan. [Re]construction: Metamodern 'Transcendence' and the Return of Myth. ''Notes on Metamodernism.'' https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/10/21/reconstruction-metamodern-transcendence-and-the-return-of-myth/</ref><br />
<br />
In 2017, he earned his Master's in Religion (MAR) from [[wikipedia:Yale_University|Yale University]], where he studied Religion and the Arts (literature concentration) at [[wikipedia:Yale_Divinity_School|Yale Divinity School]]'s elite inter-disciplinary arts program, the [[wikipedia:Yale_Institute_of_Sacred_Music|Yale Institute of Sacred Music]] (ISM). <br />
<br />
== Metamodern Spirituality Series ==<br />
In April of 2021, Dempsey published the first five volumes of the ''Metamodern Spirituality Series'', a book series devoted to exploring issues of meaning-making and spirituality after postmodernism.<ref>https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/writing</ref> The various works are all written under various pseudonyms, with Dempsey himself appearing as the "General Editor" of the series, and cover a range of genres, from a triptych of essays, to redacted scripture, to epic poetry.<br />
<br />
Dempsey also hosts the ''Metamodern Spirituality'' podcast, in which he interviews prominent voices on metamodernism and contemporary spirituality.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/c/brendangrahamdempsey</ref><br />
<br />
== Reception ==<br />
Dempsey's work on metamodernism and religion has been drawn upon by many of the leading scholars currently writing on the topic.<ref>Clasquin-Johnson, L. Towards a metamodern academic study of religion and a more religiously informed metamodernism. ''Harvard Theological Studies'' 73(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v73i3.4491.</ref><ref>Ceriello, L. Metamodern Mysticisms. Narrative Encounters with Contemporary Western Secular Spiritualities. Dissertation, Rice University, 2018. https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/103873/CERIELLO-DOCUMENT-2018.pdf</ref><ref>Bargár, P. The Modern, the Postmodern, and. . . the Metamodern? Reflections on a Transforming Sensibility from the Perspective of Theological Anthropology. ''Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies'' 38(1):3-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265378820976944</ref><ref>Shcherov, V. I. Philosophical aspects of metamodernism. ''Journal of Gender and Interdisciplinarity'' 2(1). <nowiki>https://www.periodicojs.com.br/index.php/gei/article/view/159</nowiki></ref><ref>Radchenko S. Bleeding Edge of Postmodernism: Metamodern Writing in the Novel by Thomas Pynchon. ''Interlitteraria'' 24(2):495-508.</ref> His videos on metamodernism are also popular on YouTube.<br />
<br />
== Bibliography ==<br />
<br />
=== Metamodern Spirituality Series ===<br />
<br />
* Vol. 1. ''GOD.'' [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9798728917342|ISBN 979-8728917342]]<br />
* Vol. 2. ''Metamodernism and the Return of Transcendence''. [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9798728412397|ISBN 979-8728412397]]<br />
* Vol. 3. ''The Oil and the Lamp''. [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9781667194448|ISBN 978-1667194448]]<br />
* Vol. 4. ''Building the Cathedral: Answering the Meaning Crisis through Personal Myth''. [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9798728831211|ISBN 979-8728831211]]<br />
* Vol. 5. ''GOSPEL''. [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9798530812149|ISBN 979-8530812149]]<br />
<br />
=== Articles ===<br />
<br />
* "[R]econstruction: Metamodern 'Transcendence' and the Return of Myth' in the webzine ''Notes on Metamodernism''"<br />
<br />
== External Links ==<br />
* [https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/ BrendanGrahamDempsey.com] - author's official website<br />
* [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091SJWQW1?binding=paperback&qid=1630607723 Metamodern Spirituality Series] - Amazon book series link<br />
== References ==</div>Snuffleumpagushttps://www.gameb.wiki/index.php?title=Brendan_Graham_Dempsey&diff=1072Brendan Graham Dempsey2021-09-03T18:05:59Z<p>Snuffleumpagus: Created page for Brendan Graham Dempsey, a PEOPLE article.</p>
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<div>'''Brendan Graham Dempsey''' (born May 16, 1989) is an American author, poet, and scholar of religion who writes on [[wikipedia:Metamodernism|metamodern]] spirituality. His work focuses on the perceived "meaning crisis" in contemporary society and the efforts to reconstruct religion after [[wikipedia:Postmodernism|postmodernism]].<br />
<br />
== Academic Studies ==<br />
Dempsey graduated ''summa cum laude'' from the [[wikipedia:University_of_Vermont|University of Vermont]] in 2011, where he studied Classical Civilizations and Religious Studies. Discovering the work of Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker on [[wikipedia:Metamodernism|metamodernism]] in 2014, he presented his paper "The Death and Resurrection of God in Metamodern Religion" at the ''Oscillate!: Metamodernism in the Humanities'' conference at the [[wikipedia:University_of_Strathclyde|University of Strathclyde]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Alexander|first=Rachael|title=Oscillate: Metamodernism and the Humanities|url=https://www.academia.edu/19578051/Oscillate_Metamodernism_and_the_Humanities|journal=|via=Academia.edu}}</ref> (later revised and published as "[R]econstruction: Metamodern 'Transcendence' and the Return of Myth' in the webzine ''Notes on Metamodernism'').<ref>{{Cite web|title=[Re]construction: Metamodern 'Transcendence' and the Return of Myth {{!}} Notes on Metamodernism|url=https://www.metamodernism.com/2014/10/21/reconstruction-metamodern-transcendence-and-the-return-of-myth/|access-date=2021-09-02|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
<br />
In 2017, he earned his Master's in Religion (MAR) from [[wikipedia:Yale_University|Yale University]], where he studied Religion and the Arts (literature concentration) at [[wikipedia:Yale_Divinity_School|Yale Divinity School]]'s elite inter-disciplinary arts program, the [[wikipedia:Yale_Institute_of_Sacred_Music|Yale Institute of Sacred Music]] (ISM).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Welcome, New Students! {{!}} Institute of Sacred Music|url=https://ism.yale.edu/news/welcome-new-students-0|access-date=2021-09-02|website=ism.yale.edu}}</ref> <br />
<br />
== Metamodern Spirituality Series ==<br />
In April of 2021, Dempsey published the first five volumes of the ''[[wikipedia:Metamodern_Spirituality_Series|Metamodern Spirituality Series]]'', a book series devoted to exploring issues of meaning-making and spirituality after postmodernism.<ref>{{Cite web|title=METAMODERN SPIRITUALITY w/ Brendan Graham Dempsey by The Integral Stage: AUTHOR SERIES • A podcast on Anchor|url=https://anchor.fm/layman-pascal/episodes/METAMODERN-SPIRITUALITY-w-Brendan-Graham-Dempsey-e15tsgo|access-date=2021-09-02|website=Anchor|language=en}}</ref> The various works are all written under various pseudonyms, with Dempsey himself appearing as the "General Editor" of the series, and cover a range of genres, from a triptych of essays, to redacted scripture, to epic poetry.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Aesthesia: a literary salon in Burlington|url=https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/videos/news/local/2014/04/04/7295669/|access-date=2021-09-02|website=The Burlington Free Press|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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Dempsey also hosts the ''Metamodern Spirituality'' podcast, in which he interviews prominent voices on metamodernism and contemporary spirituality.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Brendan Graham Dempsey - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQVu0qDJFHn9uN5p2bUx7oQ|access-date=2021-09-02|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
Dempsey's work on metamodernism and religion has been drawn upon by many of the leading scholars currently writing on the topic.<ref>Clasquin-Johnson, L. Towards a metamodern academic study of religion and a more religiously informed metamodernism. ''Harvard Theological Studies'' 73(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v73i3.4491.</ref><ref>Ceriello, L. Metamodern Mysticisms. Narrative Encounters with Contemporary Western Secular Spiritualities. Dissertation, Rice University, 2018. https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/103873/CERIELLO-DOCUMENT-2018.pdf</ref><ref>Bargár, P. The Modern, the Postmodern, and. . . the Metamodern? Reflections on a Transforming Sensibility from the Perspective of Theological Anthropology. ''Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies'' 38(1):3-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265378820976944</ref><ref>Shcherov, V. I. Philosophical aspects of metamodernism. ''Journal of Gender and Interdisciplinarity'' 2(1). <nowiki>https://www.periodicojs.com.br/index.php/gei/article/view/159</nowiki></ref><ref>Radchenko S. Bleeding Edge of Postmodernism: Metamodern Writing in the Novel by Thomas Pynchon. ''Interlitteraria'' 24(2):495-508.</ref> His videos on metamodernism are also popular on YouTube.<br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
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=== Metamodern Spirituality Series ===<br />
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* Vol. 1. ''GOD.'' [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9798728917342|ISBN 979-8728917342]]<br />
* Vol. 2. ''Metamodernism and the Return of Transcendence''. [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9798728412397|ISBN 979-8728412397]]<br />
* Vol. 3. ''The Oil and the Lamp''. [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9781667194448|ISBN 978-1667194448]]<br />
* Vol. 4. ''Building the Cathedral: Answering the Meaning Crisis through Personal Myth''. [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9798728831211|ISBN 979-8728831211]]<br />
* Vol. 5. ''GOSPEL''. [[wikipedia:Special:BookSources/9798530812149|ISBN 979-8530812149]]<br />
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=== Articles ===<br />
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* "[R]econstruction: Metamodern 'Transcendence' and the Return of Myth' in the webzine ''Notes on Metamodernism''"<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
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* [https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/ BrendanGrahamDempsey.com] - author's official website<br />
* [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091SJWQW1?binding=paperback&qid=1630607723 Metamodern Spirituality Series] - Amazon book series link</div>Snuffleumpagus