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Reasonable Perspectives on Religion

Reasonable Perspectives on Religion( )
Editor: Curtis, Richard
Contribution by: Barrett, Kevin
Bellah, Robert N.
Benedikt, Michael
Boer, Roland
Carse, James
Chuman, Joseph
Griffin, David Ray
Harms, William F.
Herrick, Paul
Horn, Patrick Rogers
Olson, Gary
Saxton, Alexander
ISBN:978-0-7391-4189-2
Publication Date:Jul 2010
Publisher:Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $139.95
Book Description:

This book seeks to bring together a range of discussions, both critical and apologetic, each of which examines some element or function of religion. Covering a wide range of topics, including ethics, religious pluralism, the existence of God, and reasonableness of Islam, these pieces have in common arguments that are made in careful and scholarly ways_they represent reasonable perspectives on a wide swath of contemporary religious debates, in contrast to the unreasonableness that...
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Book Details
Pages:232
Detailed Subjects: Religion / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.104 x 23.825 x 2.083 cm
Book Weight:0.493 Kilograms
Author Biography
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Robert N. Bellah, an American sociologist, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1955 and teaches at the University of California at Berkeley. He is best known for his work on community and religion. Although he has written on religions in nonwestern cultures, he has focused much of his research on the notion of civil religion in the West.

To Bellah, American society confronts a moral dilemma whereby communalism competes with individualism for domination. His most important book, Habits of the Heart (1985), considers the American character and the decline of community. Bellah holds that the radical split between knowledge and commitment is untenable and can result only in a stunted personal and intellectual growth. He argues for a social science guided by communal values.

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