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Plain Sense of Things - Ppr.: The Fate of Religion in an Age of Normal Nihilism

Plain Sense of Things - Ppr.: The Fate of Religion in an Age of Normal Nihilism

Edwards, James C.

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PhilosophyReligion General

ISBN10: 0271016787
ISBN13: 9780271016788
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Sep 30 1997
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.01 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

What could it mean to be religious in a world where religion no longer retains its former authority? Posing this question for his fellow Western intellectuals who inhabit just such a world, James C. Edwards investigates the loss of religion's traditional power in a culture characterized by what he calls normal nihilism--a situation in which one's commitment to a particular set of values is all one really has, and in which traditional religion is only a means of interpretation used to preserve what one most cares about. Recognizing the important historical role of religion in making us the people we are, he seeks to establish a viable understanding of religion without traditional beliefs and within the context of contemporary skepticism.

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