Do We Need Religion? : On the Experience of Self-transcendence

Name: Do We Need Religion?
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc
SKU: 9781594514388
Price: 36000 KES
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ISBN: 9781594514388

by Hans Joas

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1594514380

ISBN-13 9781594514388

Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 30th, 2007

Print length 166 Pages

Weight 1,365 grams

Dimensions 21.20 x 14.80 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Religion & beliefs Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology Religion and beliefs

KSh 36,000.00

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A modern discussion of religion that goes beyond the assumption that modernisation leads to secularisation.

The old assumption that modernization leads to secularization is outdated. Yet the certainty that religion is an anthropological universal that can only be suppressed by governments is also dead. Thus it is now a favorable moment for a new perspective on religion. This book takes human experiences of self-transcendence as its point of departure. Religious faith is seen as an attempt to articulate and interpret such experiences. Faith then is neither useful nor a symptom of weakness or misery, but an opening up of ways of experience. This book develops this basic idea, contrasts it with the thinking of some leading religious thinkers of our time, and relates it to the current debates about human rights and universal human dignity.

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