Lucid, readable, and dense with ideas that promise to transform current debates about religion and secularism, "Varieties of Religion Today" is much more than a revisiting of James's classic. Rather, it places James's analysis of religious experience and the dilemmas of doubt and belief in an unfamiliar but illuminating context, namely the social horizon in which questions of religion come to be presented to individuals in the first place.
Taylor begins with questions about the way in which James conceives his subject, and shows how these questions arise out of different ways of understanding religion that confronted one another in James's time and continue to do so today. Evaluating James's treatment of the ethics of belief, he goes on to develop an innovative and provocative reading of the public and cultural conditions in which questions of belief or unbelief are perceived to be individual questions. What emerges is a remarkable and penetrating view of the relation between religion and social order and, ultimately, of what "religion" means.
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Lucid, readable, and dense with ideas that promise to transform current debates about religion and secularism, "Varieties of Religion Today" is much more than a revisiting of James's classic. Rather, it places James's analysis of religious experience and the dilemmas of doubt and belief in an unfamiliar but illuminating context, namely the social horizon in which questions of religion come to be presented to individuals in the first place.
Taylor begins with questions about the way in which James conceives his subject, and shows how these questions arise out of different ways of understanding religion that confronted one another in James's time and continue to do so today. Evaluating James's treatment of the ethics of belief, he goes on to develop an innovative and provocative reading of the public and cultural conditions in which questions of belief or unbelief are perceived to be individual questions. What emerges is a remarkable and penetrating view of the relation between religion and social order and, ultimately, of what "religion" means.
Imprint | Harvard University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series |
Release date | November 2003 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | November 2003 |
Authors | Charles Taylor |
Dimensions | 190 x 127 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 127 |
Edition | New Ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-01253-0 |
Barcode | 9780674012530 |
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LSN | 0-674-01253-4 |