27 July 2007

Cultural creatives chez France

Just found this handy little résumé of the characteristics of 'cultural creatives' on a French emerging church website.
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* Sont pour l’écologie et le développement durable.
* Reconnaissent l’importance du rôle des femmes dans la société.
* Sont dans l’être davantage que dans l’avoir et dans le paraître.
* Sont pour la connaissance de soi et ont une sensibilité pour ce qui touche la spiritualité.
* sont ouverts sur le monde.
* Sont défavorables au développement économique à tout prix et s’impliquent au niveau collectif."*

It's interesting that this list pretty much corresponds to a list I use for teaching about post-modern spirituality which draws a lot on John Drane's writings about New Agery. It reminds me quite a lot of the characters in Les Particules Elementaires.

(*which being interpreted for the non-Francophonic is:
-are for ecology and sustainable development.
-recognise the importance of the role of women in society.
-are into being more than having are image.
-are for self-knowledge and have a spiritual sensibility
-are open to the world
-are against economic development at all costs and see themselves as part of a whole.)
www.temoins.com - La culture chrétienne interconfessionnelle: See also here and here -both in English.

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