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Autore |
Newman Jay <1948-> |
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Titolo |
Competition in Religious Life [[electronic resource] /] / Jay Newman |
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Waterloo, Ont., : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion by Wifrid Laurier University Press, 1989 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-23260-6 |
9786613810342 |
0-88920-669-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Competition (Psychology) |
Religious tolerance |
Religions - Relations |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Understanding Competition; Chapter Two: Evaluating Competition; Chapter Three: Interdenominational Competition; Chapter Four: Regulating Interdenominational Competition; Chapter Five: Intradenominational Competition; Chapter Six: Religious Competition Broadly Conceived; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In his latest work on the social consequences of religious commitment, Jay Newman reveals in clear and concise fashion the extent to which competitiveness is an essential feature of religious life. His assessment charts various classical strategies that have been proposed for either eliminating such competitiveness or directing it into appropriate channels. After a detailed philosophical analysis of the nature and value of competition, the author examines competition between denominations and within denominations, and considers religious competition in some of its less obvious forms. In the process of evaluating the methods for curbing religious competition advocated by such thinkers as Spinoza and Lessing, as well as by modern |
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