Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism
(Part of the Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture Series)
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Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical "academic study of religion" and an ideological and authoritarian "religion," he argues, only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, Roberts calls on intellectuals to approach...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231147538
ISBN13:9780231147538
Release Date:May 2017
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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