It is obvious that modernism as an ideology of Western culture is in serious trouble. At the present time, however, no one knows for certain what will arise to take modernism’s place. The postmodern is the name given to this space between what was and what is yet to be.
Still another aspect of the postmodern is what one social scientist has called the “unsecularization of the world.” Not only are new religious movements coming into being, but even more significant is that traditional religions are experiencing revival and renewal.
via Toward a Theological Understanding of Postmodernism, by Daniel J. Adams.
Daniel J. Adams offers a readable and accessible overview of postmodernism, calling theologians to avoid the tendency of fragmentation.