Religion
What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters
(Sprache: Englisch)
Religion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book builds on recent developments in science, theory, and philosophy to advance an innovative theory of...
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Religion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book builds on recent developments in science, theory, and philosophy to advance an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past. Drawing on the philosophy of critical realism and personalist social theory, Christian Smith answers key questions about the nature, powers, workings, appeal, and future of religion. He defines religion in a way that resolves myriad problems and ambiguities in past accounts, explains the kinds of caUSl influences religion exerts in the world, and examines the key cognitive process that makes religion possible. Smith explores why humans are religious in the first place - uniquely so as a species - and offers an account of secularization and religious innovation and persistence that breaks the logjam in which so many religion scholars have been stuck for so long.
Autoren-Porträt von Christian Smith
Christian Smith is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame. His books include To Flourish or Destruct: A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil and What Is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up.
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- Autor: Christian Smith
- 2017, 296 Seiten, 15 Schwarz-Weiss-Abbildungen, Masse: 15,9 x 24,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 0691175411
- ISBN-13: 9780691175416
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.07.2017
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Englisch
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