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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154728303321

Autore

Newman Jay <1948->

Titolo

Competition in Religious Life [[electronic resource] /] / Jay Newman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion by Wifrid Laurier University Press, 1989

ISBN

1-282-23260-6

9786613810342

0-88920-669-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Editions SR ; ; 11

Disciplina

291.1

291.172

Soggetti

Competition (Psychology)

Religious tolerance

Religions - Relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



ecumenists, the author points the way to a general approach to religious competition that minimizes destructive religious conflicts without ignoring the positive value of religious competition.