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Society and God: Culture and Creed from a Philosophical Standpoint

Society and God: Culture and Creed from a Philosophical Standpoint

Charlton, William

Paperback

PhilosophyReligion General

ISBN10: 0227176995
ISBN13: 9780227176993
Publisher: James Clarke Company
Published: Jul 30 2020
Pages: 195
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
A philosophical examination of religion and society, offering a closely reasoned challenge to the dominant Western discourse of secular liberalism.

Where should God be in thinking about society, or society in thinking about God? This book shows how philosophy can help non-philosophers with these questions. It shows that intelligence is the product, not the source, of society and language, and the rationality of individuals is inevitably conditioned by the distinctive customs and beliefs of their societies.

Addressing the idea that religion can impede the smooth running of society, it argues that the Western concept of religion is taken from Christianity and cannot usefully be extended to non-European cultures. But any society will be threatened by a sub-society with customs conflicting with those of the whole in which it exists, and Jews, Christians and Muslims have sometimes formed such sub-societies.

Charlton proceeds to consider how our dependence upon society fits with traditional beliefs about creation, salvation and life after death, and offers a synthesis that is new without being unorthodox. He indicates where Christian customs concerning birth, death, sex and education conflict with those of secular liberalism and considers which culture, Christian or secular liberal, has the better chance of prevailing in a globalised world.

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