ABSTRACT
This chapter brings together a selected number of further worldviews that do not depend upon supernatural or religious reference points but are frequently typified as secular. Meaning-making is allied with the human property for curiosity set in contexts of unexplored physical and intellectual territories. Fostered by a particular attitude towards the unknown, curiosity entails a ‘logic of enchantment' that excites and provokes ‘new understandings of our world', even though it may ‘diminish with familiarity' unless somehow replenished. One aspect of ideological worldviews lies in their politics-driven activity in regimenting their own population and also displaying military power in large-scale popular events. Submission of large populations and expansion into conquered territory reveal the distinctive nature of a political–ideological worldview. Sex and gender provide another perspective on worldviews and have assumed considerable public significance in the twenty-first century with both favourable and some negative consequences in political–legal–religious domains.
