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9780268044077: How Should We Talk About Religion?: Perspectives, Contexts, Particularities
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0268044074 ISBN 13 : 9780268044077
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2006

Synopsis

In this wide-ranging and timely volume, fourteen scholars address the important question, How should we talk about religion, whether our own or the religion of others? They confront such fundamental topics as the sufficiency of "reason" for a full life; the adequacy of our methods of describing and analyzing religion; the degree to which any serious confrontation with the religious experiences of others will challenge our own; and whether there can be a pluralism that does not dissolve into universal relativism.

Writing from a diversity of perspectives and academic disciplines--philosophy, classics, medieval studies, history, anthropology, economics, political science, and art history, among others--the contributors illuminate issues at the heart of the most significant cultural, social, and political debates of our day.

What emerges is not a univocal answer to the question posed in the title. Instead, by demonstrating how religion is talked about in the languages of very different academic disciplines, the essayists creatively address issues that no one should ignore: fundamentalism; the role of religion in American democracy; the tension between secular liberalism and religious rhetoric; monotheism versus pluralism; and the relationship between poverty and liberation theology. Collectively, their various approaches to talking about religion--differences due to background, age, nationality, religious outlook, and intellectual commitment, yet all valid--provide a general response to the question in the book's title: in intellectual and personal community.

Contributorss: Luis E. Bacigalupo, Clifford Ando, Sabine MacCormack, R. Scott Appleby, Bilinda Straight, Patrick J. Deneen, Wayne C. Booth (1921-2005), Eugene Garver, Javier Iguíñiz Echeverría, Ruth Abbey, Sol Serrano, Carol Bier, Jeffrey Kripal, Ebrahim Moosa.

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À propos de l'auteur

James Boyd White is Hart Wright Professor of Law, professor of English, and adjunct professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan.

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Éditeur
University of Notre Dame Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268044074
ISBN 13 
9780268044077
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
334
Éditeur
White James Boyd
Coordonnées du fabricant
University of Notre Dame Press
https://www.nd.edu/

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