A Secular Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Secular Age write by Charles Taylor. This book was released on 2018-09-17. A Secular Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
Identity in a Secular Age
Identity in a Secular Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Identity in a Secular Age write by Fern Elsdon-Baker. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Identity in a Secular Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although historians have suggested for some time that we move away from the assumption of a necessary clash between science and religion, the conflict narrative persists in contemporary discourse. But why? And how do we really know what people actually think about evolutionary science, let alone the many and varied ways in which it might relate to individual belief? In this multidisciplinary volume, experts in history and philosophy of science, oral history, sociology of religion, social psychology, and science communication and public engagement look beyond two warring systems of thought. They consider a far more complex, multifaceted, and distinctly more interesting picture of how differing groups along a spectrum of worldviews—including atheistic, agnostic, and faith groups—relate to and form the ongoing narrative of a necessary clash between evolution and faith. By ascribing agency to the public, from the nineteenth century to the present and across Canada and the United Kingdom, this volume offers a much more nuanced analysis of people’s perceptions about the relationship between evolutionary science, religion, and personal belief, one that better elucidates the complexities not only of that relationship but of actual lived experience.
The Pastor in a Secular Age
The Pastor in a Secular Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pastor in a Secular Age write by Andrew Root. This book was released on 2019-06-18. The Pastor in a Secular Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Academy of Parish Clergy 2020 Top Ten Book for Parish Ministry In Faith Formation in a Secular Age, the first book in his Ministry in a Secular Age trilogy, Andrew Root offered an alternative take on the issue of youth drifting away from the church and articulated how faith can be formed in our secular age. In The Pastor in a Secular Age, Root explores how this secular age has impacted the identity and practice of the pastor, obscuring his or her core vocation: to call and assist others into the experience of ministry. Using examples of pastors throughout history--from Augustine and Jonathan Edwards to Martin Luther King Jr. and Nadia Bolz-Weber--Root shows how pastors have both perpetuated and responded to our secular age. Root turns to Old Testament texts and to the theology of Robert Jenson to explain how pastors can regain the important role of attending to people's experiences of divine action, offering a new vision for pastoral ministry today. This is the second book in Root's Ministry in a Secular Age series.
A Secular Age Beyond the West
A Secular Age Beyond the West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Secular Age Beyond the West write by Mirjam Künkler. This book was released on 2018-07-05. A Secular Age Beyond the West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Religious Difference in a Secular Age
Religious Difference in a Secular Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Difference in a Secular Age write by Saba Mahmood. This book was released on 2015-11-03. Religious Difference in a Secular Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How secular governance in the Middle East is making life worse—not better—for religious minorities The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Egypt with Coptic Orthodox Christians and Bahais—religious minorities in a predominantly Muslim country—Saba Mahmood shows how modern secular governance has exacerbated religious tensions and inequalities rather than reduced them. Tracing the historical career of secular legal concepts in the colonial and postcolonial Middle East, she explores how contradictions at the very heart of political secularism have aggravated and amplified existing forms of Islamic hierarchy, bringing minority relations in Egypt to a new historical impasse. Through a close examination of Egyptian court cases and constitutional debates about minority rights, conflicts around family law, and controversies over freedom of expression, Mahmood invites us to reflect on the entwined histories of secularism in the Middle East and Europe. A provocative work of scholarship, Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges us to rethink the promise and limits of the secular ideal of religious equality.
