Worldviews: Crosscultural Explorations of Human Beliefs (3rd Edition)
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This book offers a balanced, wide-ranging, and realistic approach to the full range of worldviews, showing how, whether religious or secular, they define the human values that drive the engines of both continuity and change worldwide. It shows readers the dynamics of each tradition, and emphasizes that although the various traditions may all share similar aspects, they each assign varying levels of importance to specific areas. Explores the major religious traditions and secular ideologies (Marxism, nationalisms, scientific humanism) from six dimensions: experiential/emotional; narrative/mythic; doctrinal/philosophical; ethical/legal; ritual/practical; and social/organizational. For anyone interested in comparative worldviews, religious and secular.
The publisher, Prentice-Hall Humanities/Social Science
This text offers a balanced, wide-ranging, and realistic approach to the study of modern religion. It explores and analyzes the many dimensions not only of the major religious traditions, but also those of the civil religions (e.g., nationalism) that often compete and combine with them in the modern world.
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Worldviews: Crosscultural Explorations of Human Beliefs (3rd Edition)
Worldviews: Crosscultural Explorations of Human Beliefs (3rd Edition),Ninian Smart,Prentice Hall,0130209805,Comparative Religion,General,Ideology,Religion,Religion - World Religions,Religions,Religion / General
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