SCM Core Text Religion and Modern Thought
Religion and Modern Thought
1st Edition
Published on 3. January 2013
450 pages
978-0-334-04819-0 (ISBN)
Description
Written specifically for level 2 undergraduates, this textbook introduces readers to the extremely wide range of forms of religious thought, and the responses of religion to modern ideas, cultural phenomenon and events of the 20th century
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Defining Religion and the Religious Person
- 3 The Three Abrahamic Faiths
- 4 The Challenge of Reason
- 5 New Conceptions of Religious Language
- 6 The Impact of Science
- 7 Religion in a Pluralist World
- 8 Religion, Politics and the Environment
- 9 Modern Women and Traditional Religion
- 10 Religious Fundamentalism and Modernity
- 11 Religion and Postmodernism
- Sources and Acknowledgements
- Index
