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Religion for Reluctant Believers
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781498295185
Umbreit-Nr.: 2256700
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 148 S.
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 19.05.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
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- Zusatztext
- This is a volume written for persons who live in the mental world of modernity--that is, in a world that cherishes (1) freedom as the core of being human; (2) critical-thinking reason as the arbiter of what to affirm or not; (3) history, process, and dynamism at the heart of human life and society; and (4) dialogue with those who think differently yet who sense that there is somehow more to life, to reality, than meets the eye: that there is a depth or spiritual dimension not captured in our everyday experiences, which is customarily called religion. Religion for Reluctant Believers explores the meaning of life: its joys, problems, and terrors, its pluses and minuses. In short, it asks the question, do you want to buy into Religion with a capital r, into a particular religion, or into no religion at all?
- Kurztext
- This is a volume written for persons who live in the mental world of modernity--that is, in a world that cherishes (1) freedom as the core of being human; (2) critical-thinking reason as the arbiter of what to affirm or not; (3) history, process, and dynamism at the heart of human life and society; and (4) dialogue with those who think differently yet who sense that there is somehow more to life, to reality, than meets the eye: that there is a depth or spiritual dimension not captured in our everyday experiences, which is customarily called religion. Religion for Reluctant Believers explores the meaning of life: its joys, problems, and terrors, its pluses and minuses. In short, it asks the question, do you want to buy into Religion with a capital r, into a particular religion, or into no religion at all?
- Autorenportrait
- Leonard J. Swidler is Professor of Catholic Thought and Interreligious Dialogue at Temple University. His numerous publications include<i>The Study of Religion in an Age of Global Dialogue</i> (with Paul Mojzes, 2000),<i>Confucianism in Dialogue Today</i> (coeditor, 2004),<i>Jesus Was a Feminist</i> (2007),<i>Trialogue</i> (coauthor, 2007), and<i>Dialogue for Interreligious Study</i> (2014).