
The Role of Religion in History
George Walsh(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
205 pages
978-1-4128-5584-6 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive survey of religion and its profound effects on history provides a historical context for in-depth analysis of theological, social, and political themes in which religion plays a major role.
George Walsh first traces the rise and impact of primitive religions. He looks at Indian traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism and analyzes the Semitic tradition of Judaism and Christianity and the evolving conception of a personal God. He discusses the history and chief doctrines of Islam as well, with its fundamental respect for desert tribal values and its emphasis on both the authority of God and the brotherhood of believers. Walsh then compares Judaism and Christianity. He sees Judaism as marked by a profound ambivalence between the values of tribal, nomadic desert life and the values of urban civilization, individualism, and collectivism. Judaism is "this-worldly," but the Christian worldview is "other-wordly."
Walsh closes with a timely discussion of the ethical, political, and economic teachings of the Judeo-Christian tradition, focusing specifically on their differing attitudes toward sex, reproduction, and marriage; their basic views of mind and body; and man's relation to God.
George Walsh first traces the rise and impact of primitive religions. He looks at Indian traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism and analyzes the Semitic tradition of Judaism and Christianity and the evolving conception of a personal God. He discusses the history and chief doctrines of Islam as well, with its fundamental respect for desert tribal values and its emphasis on both the authority of God and the brotherhood of believers. Walsh then compares Judaism and Christianity. He sees Judaism as marked by a profound ambivalence between the values of tribal, nomadic desert life and the values of urban civilization, individualism, and collectivism. Judaism is "this-worldly," but the Christian worldview is "other-wordly."
Walsh closes with a timely discussion of the ethical, political, and economic teachings of the Judeo-Christian tradition, focusing specifically on their differing attitudes toward sex, reproduction, and marriage; their basic views of mind and body; and man's relation to God.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
307 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4128-5584-6 (9781412855846)
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Person
George Walsh taught philosophy and the history of religion at Horbart and William Smith colleges, USA. He was professor emeritus at Salisbury State University, USA. Among other publications, he translated and edited The Phenomenology of the Social World by Alfred Schutz.
Content
PrefacePart I: Rise of the Two Major Forms of Religion1 Introduction: The Nature of Religion and Primitive Religions2 Religions of the Indian Tradition3 Judaism and Christianity4 IslamPart II: Ethos of the Judeo-Christian Tradition5 Judaism and Its World Outlook6 Christianity and Its World Outlook7 The Ethical, Political, and Economic Teaching of the Judeo-Christian Tradition8 The Sexual Ethics of the Judeo-Christian TraditionSelective BibliographyIndex