ABSTRACT
Post-' has become a common prefix for descriptions of various contemporary academic and cultural perspectives. Women and men find themselves in a constant, nascent state of belief, whether Christian or post-Christian, about God and their religious practices. Thus the post- as a prefix to Christianity is more aptly said to stand for the transformation of belief, not Christianity's disappearance as a living religion. Certain feminist philosophers of religion will insist over and against the position taken here that post-Christians, post-structuralists and post-moderns more generally are giving up arguments about the justification of belief for less exclusive questions about religious ritual and habitus. A more technical, post-modern displacement of the modern belief has caused some philosophers to reject epistemological accounts of religion. Radical Orthodox theologians may accept the post-modern claim to dethrone human reason, assuming that this opens the way to the faith of Christianity. Post-modernism as conceived by Lyotard himself is a movement against all totalizing accounts of ultimate reality.
