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The disenchantment of secular discourse /

Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying -- This debased conditions often attributed to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life. Steven D. Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter backwards: it is not primarily religion but...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Steven D. (Steven Douglas), 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The way we talk now
  • Living and dying in the "course of nature"
  • Trafficking in harm
  • Disoriented discourse : the secular subversion of religious freedom
  • The heavenly city of the secular philosophers
  • Science, humanity, and atrocity
  • Opening up the cage?