postreligious

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English

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Etymology

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From post- +‎ religious.

Adjective

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postreligious (not comparable)

  1. After the decline of religion.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103:
      For the postreligious culture of modern humanity, art is the last religion.
    • 2007 August 4, Peter Steinfels, “Bergman, Antonioni and the Religiously Inclined”, in New York Times[1]:
      His world is severely postreligious, a circumstance that made reflective believers intensely interested in his work, too.