Worldviews: Crosscultural Explorations of Human Beliefs - Brossura

Smart, Ninian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0130209805 ISBN 13: 9780130209801

Casa editrice: Pearson College Div, 2000

Riassunto

This book offers a balanced, wide-ranging, and realistic approach to the full range of worldviews, showing how, whether religious or secular, they define the human values that drive the engines of both continuity and change worldwide. It shows readers the dynamics of each tradition, and emphasizes that although the various traditions may all share similar aspects, they each assign varying levels of importance to specific areas. Explores the major religious traditions and secular ideologies (Marxism, nationalisms, scientific humanism) from six dimensions: experiential/emotional; narrative/mythic; doctrinal/philosophical; ethical/legal; ritual/practical; and social/organizational. For anyone interested in comparative worldviews, religious and secular.

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Product Description:

For courses in Introduction to World Religions and Introduction to Religious Studies. This text offers a balanced, wide-ranging, and realistic approach to the study of modern religion. It explores and analyzes the many dimensions not only of the major religious traditions, but also those of the civil religions (e.g., nationalism) that often compete and combine with them in the modern world.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pearson College Div
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0130209805
• ISBN 13: 9780130209801
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176