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Autore: | Fenn Richard K |
Titolo: | Beyond idols [[electronic resource] ] : the shape of a secular society / / Richard K. Fenn |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.6 |
Soggetto topico: | Secularism - United States |
Civil religion - United States | |
Christian sociology - United States | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-187) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; 1 Idols, Idolatry, and Unnecessary Suffering; 2 Starting on the Path to Secularity: The Agony of the Possible; 3 Heroes, Charismatic Figures, and Celebrities as Cultural Idols; 4 Brotherhoods, Sisterhoods, and Secularization: Creativity, Secularity, and the Creation of Space for the Present Generation; 5 Toward a Theory of a Society without Idols: From Civil Religion to Public Religiosity; 6 Stifling the Sociological Imagination; 7 Ambiguity, Controversy, and the Limits of Language as the Bearer of the Sacred; 8 Beyond Idolatry: Religionless Christianity; Notes |
BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This study attempts to articulate the nature of a secular society, describe its benefits, and suggest the conditions under which such a society could emerge. To become secular, argues Fenn, is to open oneself to a wide range of possibilities. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Beyond idols |
ISBN: | 0-19-028673-3 |
9786610531479 | |
1-280-53147-9 | |
1-4237-4573-6 | |
1-60256-924-X | |
0-19-803285-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910792241203321 |
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