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Encountering the secular : philosophical endeavors in religion and culture /
The author challenges the breach between the secular and the religious, rendering that breach ambiguous. Such ambiguity, the author affirms, is relevant to a time when rigid and simplistic notions of religion and secularity are used to justify thoughtlessness and even violence. All too often the sec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The author challenges the breach between the secular and the religious, rendering that breach ambiguous. Such ambiguity, the author affirms, is relevant to a time when rigid and simplistic notions of religion and secularity are used to justify thoughtlessness and even violence. All too often the secular is thought of either as a triumph in "overcoming" the presumed irrationality and oppression of religion, or as lament in "losing" the meaning religion is thought once to have offered. Atchley suggests a view of the secular as an opportunity to experience an immanent value that is neither controlled by the human self nor conferred by a divine entity. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 181 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813930411 0813930413 1280490047 9781280490040 9786613585271 6613585270 |