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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville
University of Virginia Press
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in religion and culture
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| Further subjects: | B
Religion
Philosophy
B Religious philosophy B Electronic book B Culture Philosophy B Religion ; Philosophy B Electronic books B Culture ; Philosophy B Secularism B Culture |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-178) and index. - Description based on print version record |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| ISBN: | 0813930413 |